On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 20:02, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
"FATAL: cannot change permission of TTY - read only file system" and login is impossible.
It sounds like something failed on startup. I'm guessing the "fsck on startup"
I tried re-starting the update from the start w/o success. Same result. I have gotten the rescue system to start but I am a loss as to how to proceed. I think that resetting the 'read/write' status of the / partition might do it
There is no "read/write" status set at partition level. When the system boots, the partition is mounted read only. This is at OS level, so fsck can work undisturbed. If everything runs to completion, the file system gets remounted read/write.
but the rescue sys is cryptic at best. The HD is reiserfs from 8.1, boot is in a seperate partition.
Do you know the names of your partitions (/dev/hda3 for example) and what file system you have on them? If you do, run fsck for that file system from the rescue system. For example, if / is /dev/hda3 with reiserfs, you would run reiserfsck /dev/hda3 If there are any problems, it should tell you what you need to do. It could of course be something other than the fsck, but without the boot log it's difficult to say what.