On Friday 28 January 2005 06:35, Christopher Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have a Suse 9.1 box that has suddenly broke. It gets stuck with a message that I need to check the filesystem, but as you will see, there is apparently nothing wrong with the filesystem:
The booting stops here and the following is a log of what I've done to fix it, without success:
... Loading console font lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial CK ... done fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write do: bash# mount -n -o remount,rw / Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this maintenance mode. Shutdown or reboot will not work.
So that's it. There appears to be nothing wrong. Furthermore, I can mount it from the rescue and all the directories appear to be their, and the files in a few of the dirs I browsed.
How to get Suse to stop getting stuck?
And why does it say it's mounted ro when it is really rw?
Thanks for assistance. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
Hello Christopher, I had the exact same problem not too long ago and with a little help from the list I solved it. There is a thread that you need to see. In Konqueror do this: gg:lists site:lists.suse.com suse-linux-e "Booting Problem" to see the complete thread. Here is the text of the one marked [SOLVED] that had the solution for me: There were two problems. On the second harddrive hdb5 was always being recognized by fsck as a swap partition (which it originally was) even though I would reformat it as other partitions. So finally I deleted it and rebooted, still into the same problem. So I checked my external firewire drive. Fsck failed on /dev/sda1; said there was no such device, so I deleted the entry in /etc/fstab, rebooted and I am now back in business! Thank You Anders and Patrick, Bruce, C.Richard, Sid, peter, ptilopteri and Carl! Success at last! I couldn't done it without you! Jerome I hope this helps, Jerome