system halted

[littlebig]

during bootup when checking for new hardware, my linux enter runlevel 0 and
then system halted
any cause for this? any idea for me? i don't want to format my harddisk cos
many data inside.
please help me!
thanks
:(

[mrBen]

If it's been set up to enter runlevel 0 then it will halt, as that is the runlevel for halting. If not, then it seems that there is a problem with some of the hardware. If you are using LILO then type 'linux single' or 'linux 1' at the prompt and it will boot into single use mode, hopefully bypassing any setup files. Then you can check the default runlevel, and also check your log files for what error messages might be thrown up while booting.

Question - have you done anything to your system, or did it just happen? Any hardware changes? Did you move your computer?

HTH