Linux hangs, and now won't even boot

[pitupepito2000]

Hi,

This is a long story. It all started this afternoon, when I tried to reformat my hdd, which I had no problem, with I did it all with cfdisk, then I changed the entries in /etc/fstab to match the entries in the partition table. Then when I rebotted my system linux just hangs, I don' know why, it hagns after starting the apache webserver. Then I tried many times to fix it by booting into knoppix and chrooting into my partition. Since I am tired I did the mistake of running the following as root "lilo -b /dev/hda" which messed up my NT bootloader. Now I can't boot any OS except Knoppix in that box.

Can somebody please help me get my things back on track.

Thanks,
pitupepito

 

[n0cmonkey]

If you boot off of the Windows disk and fdisk /mbr you should be able to boot to Windows.

Not exactly sure what you did to your Linux install though.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try getting into the single user mode in Linux. It shouldn't start so much and might give you a chance to fool around and double check everything.

 

[pitupepito2000]

nockmoney, thanks for your tips, I tried them and they worked I was able to restore my windows bootloader, and boot into single user mode.
Now my debian box just hangs right after trying to start apache, and it just hangs.

Please help me,
pitupepito

 

[n0cmonkey]

Take apache out of startup and see if it continues.

 

[Nothinman]

Does the network work in Linux? Apache does some DNS queries on startup, it may just take a really long time to timeout.

 

[Bremen]

I second Nothinman, I had a box appear to hang once on sendmail, after a couple attempts at fixing I went to lunch and found the computer had finished booting. The timeouts from the misconfigured network took almost a minute :-\

 

[n0cmonkey]

When my network is down my OpenBSD machine does that too. I blamed it on the network card, left for a few minutes so I didn't break anything, and it had booted while I was gone. 😛