# Rocky Linux 9.4 won't boot due to Corrupted SELinux policies help **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Tags:** rocky-linux-9\ **Created:** [August 15, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462 "2024-08-15T04:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stevejjd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevejjd](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/stevejjd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/1 "2024-08-15T04:29:57Z")
Hi all, Me again. I opened /etc/selinux/config and change it to SELINUX=permissive. After I reboot, I get an error “Failed to load SELinux policy, freezing.” I tried to follow help articles but my GRUB menu looks completely different. [http://blog.aristadba.com/2021/03/failed-to-load-selinux-policy-freezingsolved/](http://blog.aristadba.com/2021/03/failed-to-load-selinux-policy-freezingsolved/) What are the instructions for Rocky Linux 9.4 with GRUB ---
**Author:** ![stevejjd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevejjd](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/stevejjd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/2 "2024-08-15T04:31:09Z")
![IMG_4097](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/b/b19cb2715cf50793e682bce0c53c977eba8ed5fb.jpeg) ![IMG_4098](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/6/6dc00be973777caf69c9c4d3cd54418f41667e6c.jpeg) ![IMG_4095](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/d/dea3d3b8d18298c8df4a1a9ccefc63607e3ea894.jpeg) ![IMG_4096](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/5/5ce33d95dbbedae0cf460c9310d9c5eef3831dca.jpeg) Here are some pictures to illustrate my problem. I would appreciate any help to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![stevejjd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevejjd](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/stevejjd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/3 "2024-08-15T04:35:16Z")
- How to reset it to default? - Can we set SELINUX=disabled and still be able to boot into Linux? - Could one way to fix it be to boot into a bootable USB of Ubuntu and edit the file from there and then boot back into Rocky Linux as normal? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![stevejjd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevejjd](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/stevejjd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/4 "2024-08-15T05:10:54Z")
I booted into a Rocky Linux 9.4 USB and entered Rescue Environment. I press option 1 and then saw a message; “Your system has been mounted under /mnt/sysroot. If you would like to make the root of your system the root of the active system, run the command: chroot /mnt/sysroot” - I access system by running the command chroot /mnt/sysroot - To disable SELinux temporarily: setenforce 0 - To revert the SELinux configuration: nano /etc/selinux/config - I changed the line to targeted - sudo reboot It tried to boot but ran into an issue where it needed to autorelabel something It reboot again and worked ---
**Author:** ![hs303](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@hs303](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/hs303)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/5 "2024-08-15T07:51:22Z")
Next time you can try to press `e` while in the boot menu and add the following parameter `selinux=0`. It should disable `selinux` for the current boot only. If this should not work, you can add the kernel parameter `init=/bin/bash` to spawn a shell, instead of booting the whole system. If you use this rescue methods to change files, you need to create an empty file called `.autorelabel` within the `/ ` directory for `selinux` to appropriately label the files you have changed. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-linux-9-4-wont-boot-due-to-corrupted-selinux-policies-help/15462/6 "2024-10-14T07:52:01Z")
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