Boot error "Failed to load SELinux policy!"

[linoxgreenhorn]

I edited my /etc/selinux/config file, in it I change (selinux=targeted) to (selinux=disabled) and now I'm unable to boot my system. My system just hangs after trying to boot and I keep getting an error that says "Failed to load SELinux policy!", what can I possibly do to fix the problem??? Please take mercy on me I'm new to the linux world!!

[atreyu]

I thought that was all you needed to do to disable SELinux...how about this as a way to at least boot: reboot and at the grub prompt, press the a key to append to the kernel line and add

 selinux=0 noselinux

then boot. Does that work?

[linoxgreenhorn]

I thought that was all you needed to do to disable SELinux...how about this as a way to at least boot: reboot and at the grub prompt, press the a key to append to the kernel line and add

 selinux=0 noselinux

then boot. Does that work?

Thank you very much, you are a genious!!! It worked, I got in and am able to edit SELinux, now my question is how do I edit it so that it doesn't prevent Samba from working because that's the reason I edited it in the first place because I thought that it might have been the reason I couldn't get Samba to share files.

[atreyu]

Well, I *thought* all you need was this:

SELINUX=disabled

in the file /etc/selinux/config and reboot. But if that doesn't work, you can certainly put the above kernel parameters in the appropriate kernel line(s) in your grub config file (/etc/grub.conf typically).

Edit: I just re-read your initial post - is it case-sensitive maybe?