Re: system reboots before booting

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

> hey all
>
> So I get back from a lovely 6000km road trip and am working on some LDP
> documentation. I install the Morphon XML editor in /usr/local (with JRE)
> with no problems around 10pm. At 3am I shut down my system using "sudo
> halt"--like I always do. At 9:30am I try to start my computer and it won't
> boot. The system reboots right after the "If you'd like to enter the BIOS
> press F12." I've tried running a rescue disk and I can get the / partition
> to mount, but I'm at a loss on what's wrong. Obviously I'd prefer not to
> have to re-install my system (again).
>
> Any ideas on what's going wrong?
>  

Odd. It sounds like maybe your boot sector has a problem. I'd try 
booting into rescue mode like you can, and then rerunning 
lilo/grub/whatever.

If that's not enough detail, holler back.

--
Kent