On 10-Jun-98 Graham Knopp wrote:
>
> One of my machines is behaving strangely (it's running RH5.0).
> Everything was fine until I rebooted today (with minor changes that
> shouldn't matter). Now, when it reaches the fsck, it claims that the
> partitions (/usr /usr/local /var and /scr) are not configured or not
> present. Here's the output:
>
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda5
> fsck.ext2: Device not configure while trying to open /dev/sda5
> Possibly non-existent or swap device?
>
> et cetera. Similar output when I try to manually mount:
>
>> mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/sda5 /scr
> mount: /dev/sda5 is not a valid block device
Rule of thumb: undo the last changes made when something has gone wrong.
Since you didn't mention what changes you made, that points to the possible
problem. I've made some that had nothing to do with the system, only to
lose access to all or most of it.
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Pardon my english - I went to US public school.
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