2.5. Troubleshooting boot problems

There are many contributing factors towards a system failure.

  • Due to mishandling, for example, if someone intentionally accesses and ends up corrupting it.

  • When conditions, such as a power failure, corrupt the Boot Logical Volume (BLV).

  • When a disk encounters many bad blocks under which the system becomes un-usable.

Any of these conditions may prevent the system from restarting.

The sections that follow contain a discussion of the situations where the system will not boot and how to correct the problems.

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You must have root authority to perform all of these functions.

2.5.1. Accessing a system that will not boot

If you are unable to boot your system, the first step is to access the system and see what is ...

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