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Please excuse me for replying to my own thread, but I have some
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On Jan 15, Michael Fischer
er, help!
Last night I shut down my main machine. This morning I turned it on, and discovered that no matter what, it would not "unmount the initrd" and mount the "/" filesystem rw, only ro.
I booted from the first CD (9.0) in rescue mode, backed up a few gig of data to another machine. I could not get any thing more useful than what I stated in the first pargraph out of the /var/log/* for debugging purposes, however.
At first I decided to simply transition to the second machine, but after moving the sound card over to it, I discover that it does not power up correctly. (bad day for working with computers, it seems)
So back to the first machine: before I simply try to reinstall, does anyone have any clever suggestions to rescue that one? For what it is worth, it was running 9.0, GRUB, one disk. I saw nothing in the boot messages (as they scrolled by) from ext3 about needing to fsck, etc. And once mounted from the rescue boot (mount /dev/hda3 /mnt; cd /mnt; chroot /mnt) I suffered no ill effects during usage.
Ok, small update, for what it is worth: I decided to at least work from the rescue mode of the CD for a bit, and went to return the sound card to the original machine. For grins, I booted it normally, and it came up fine. But I didn't trust this state of affairs, so I tried it again, and it has persistently only come up with / as read-only. I ran the repair system mode from Yast, but it neither claimed to find errors, nor fixed anything when I told it to fix GRUB anyway (I'm shotting in the dark here). Again, thanks in advance. Michael Fischer
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The Friday 2004-01-16 at 00:47 -0500, Michael Fischer wrote:
But I didn't trust this state of affairs, so I tried it again, and it has persistently only come up with / as read-only.
This usually happen when '/etc/init.d/boot.localfs' runs 'fsck' and it returns failure. The message would be this one: | echo "fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root" | echo "file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it" | echo "read-write do:" But if it is the '/' partittion, and it is a reiserfs one, then you need to boot the rescue CD and fsck it - or run 'reiserfsck'. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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On Fri, Jan 16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2004-01-16 at 00:47 -0500, Michael Fischer wrote:
But I didn't trust this state of affairs, so I tried it again, and it has persistently only come up with / as read-only.
This usually happen when '/etc/init.d/boot.localfs' runs 'fsck' and it returns failure. The message would be this one:
| echo "fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root" | echo "file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it" | echo "read-write do:"
Well, I ran fsck via the first CD's repair mode. Nothing found. But I could always try it by hand too.
But if it is the '/' partittion, and it is a reiserfs one, then you need to boot the rescue CD and fsck it - or run 'reiserfsck'.
No, its ext3. Is there a sane way to get the CD's to replace grub with lilo after installation? (no flames please :-) thanks. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael@visv.net Recompile and be happy.
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The Wednesday 2004-01-21 at 17:56 -0500, Michael Fischer wrote:
Well, I ran fsck via the first CD's repair mode. Nothing found. But I could always try it by hand too.
But if it is the '/' partittion, and it is a reiserfs one, then you need to boot the rescue CD and fsck it - or run 'reiserfsck'.
No, its ext3.
Mmm. Anyway, on some cases I think is better to fsck the "/" partition from the CD.
Is there a sane way to get the CD's to replace grub with lilo after installation? (no flames please :-)
Not from me! X'-) Er... automatically, I don't know; and you are using 9.0, I think, and me 8.2 (no automatic rescue). Manually... yes, I would know how to do it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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