hi.
For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901
running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to
mount read-write the root partition during boot. For about 3 months
*after* i had installed a new Toshiba 100GiB drive, the system has
worked beautifully. The system is not partitioned in my traditional /
/usr /var /home /tmp scenario, and instead uses one ext3 file system
for / /usr /var /tmp, and another partition for /home. Manual fsck -fv
/dev/hdXN of the root partition shows the drive to be "perfectly
healthy." Booting from KNOPPIX, blasting /etc/mtab experimentally, and
fsck'ing reveals nothing.
The fstab looks good to me, and has not been changed since i installed
the new hard drive. I did install autofs and configured it to watch
over /mnt. Nothing can write to the drive, and thusly, diagnostic
information is available only while booting. A great many startup
scripts exit on the error: "Read-only file system."
Any ideas on what to do to fix?
i'm stymied.
have a nice day.yad
jdpf
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