On Monday 25 June 2001 06:25, dizzy wrote:
Ok I made the rescue disk from the 5.3 cd booted into Yomama:> ran fsck -y /dev/hda2 it ran in just a few seconds. said the filesystem was clean
This has no effect. It seems that the system cant write to /dev/null
if I echo hello > /dev/null bash: /dev/null: readonly filesystem
ls -lag /dev/null|grep null -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun24 2001 null
Is this correct?
No it is not correct. /dev/null should be a character special device with major number 1 and minor number 3 rm /dev/null mknod /dev/null c 1 3
what should it be??
this seems to be where the problem starts
<4>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <4>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <4>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <4>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <4>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: CD-ROM Model: Drive/F5A Rev: B1.4 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. Kernel log daemon terminating. Boot logging started at Sun Jun 24 23:27:04 2001 Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab... /etc/init.d/boot: /dev/null: Read-only file system failed /etc/init.d/boot: /dev/null: Read-only file system
*** ERROR! Cannot fsck because root is not read-only!
also the full boot.msg file is at http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/badboot.html
I really need some suggestions....
eeeeeeeeehhhhhhh
rob