hello all, My P-II wont boot all of a sudden.
I've been in the middle of setting it up. Fresh install, updating, upgrading packages, etc. I probably wasn't careful enough to reboot after every little change so I can't pinpoint when the problem started in relation to what I was doing, just that this morning it wont boot. Etch, i386 It won't boot in single-user mode. It will boot to init=/bin/sh, so the LVM dev mapper system is working. The problem is in the /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh script, it gets an error when it goes to remount the / fs rw (after the filesystem is declared clean). "Cannot change data mode or remount mount / not mounted already or bad option". Unfortunatly, the script doesn't stop the booting process when it can't mount / rw so it goes along and things don't work because / isn't mounted rw. I can manually mount / rw with: 3 mount -n -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/raid--1-root / Note on the device name: this is LVM over hardware raid. The hardware raid1 looks like a scsi disk (I forget if its sda or sdb), as does the hardware raid0. / is unencrypted, while others (e.g. home, /var/tmp, /var/local) are encrypted. That part works fine. I tidied up /etc/fstab (which looked like a dog's breakfast) last night, but it still looks OK to me. I didn't change the options, just tried to line up the columns a bit. Is mount sensitive to mixed spaces and tabs in fstab? Any suggestions? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
