Boot services not starting (ethernet, LVM, passwords)
I may have a borked installation of 9.1 professional. I was surprised that the install, after having put lilo on hda, didn't have any internet config or didn't ask me to set a root password. When I reboot my LVM2 volumes don't get mounted (I added 'auto' in fstab but no luck -- and I wonder if I should even need to add that for /home and /user to get mounted anyway). YaST was able to set up and configure my ethernet card, but after a reboot the interface doesn't start. It will start if I go into yast and reconfigure the card. Finally, I did 'passwd root' to set my password, but I don't seem to need a password to log in -- root followed by a carriage return gets met in. This is my first Suse install so I'm a little confused. _________ Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"
stephen wrote:
I may have a borked installation of 9.1 professional.
I was surprised that the install, after having put lilo on hda, didn't have any internet config or didn't ask me to set a root password.
When I reboot my LVM2 volumes don't get mounted (I added 'auto' in fstab but no luck -- and I wonder if I should even need to add that for /home and /user to get mounted anyway).
YaST was able to set up and configure my ethernet card, but after a reboot the interface doesn't start. It will start if I go into yast and reconfigure the card.
Finally, I did 'passwd root' to set my password, but I don't seem to need a password to log in -- root followed by a carriage return gets met in.
This is my first Suse install so I'm a little confused.
_________ Stephen
Somehow, you're booting into the rescue system (I'm guessing). If that's the case, you don't have your 'real' root partition loaded. You have to mount it (mount /dev/hda# /mnt) and work off of /mnt to make changes. But, you shouldn't be booting into the rescue system anyway. Did you make a change to the boot loader config? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:34:47 -0500, stephen wrote
I may have a borked installation of 9.1 professional.
I was surprised that the install, after having put lilo on hda, didn't have any internet config or didn't ask me to set a root password.
When I reboot my LVM2 volumes don't get mounted (I added 'auto' in fstab but no luck -- and I wonder if I should even need to add that for /home and /user to get mounted anyway).
YaST was able to set up and configure my ethernet card, but after a reboot the interface doesn't start. It will start if I go into yast and reconfigure the card.
Finally, I did 'passwd root' to set my password, but I don't seem to need a password to log in -- root followed by a carriage return gets met in.
This is my first Suse install so I'm a little confused.
Someone suggested that I might have been booting in in rescue mode, but I just rebooted without the install CD in the drive, and same thing. I choose "Linux" as my lilo boot choice. Here's my lilo.conf entry: image = /boot/vmlinuz label = Linux initrd = /boot/initrd optional root = /dev/hda1 vga = 0x31a append = "splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts" Still no volumes mounted and no ethernet on reboot. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Stephen
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