Hi Mark, Thanks for your email.
I tried to rescue my system without success. I am currently doing re-installation. >Shi-Ping wrote: > >> I have a big problem with my RH7.2. It will not reboot. It always >> hangs after the following line: > >> Setting hostname mycomputer.mydomain.com: [OK] > >> I tried to boot in single user mode without success. However, I can boot >> the system with the emergency mode. Now, how I can recover the system? > >Ok, I just checked my /var/log/messages (have you done that, and your >dmesg?), and I see that hostname is set just before the fsck on / runs. >Therefore, I suspect a disk or filesystem problem. Yes, the file system appeared to be damaged. >Now, the first thing you need to do is umount /dev/hda2. This will unmount >the partition that fsck is warning you about - you should *not* run fsck on a >partition mounted read/write. You should also do it *not* in parallel. > >Is this a dual-boot system, or do you have /boot on one partition, and / on >/dev/hda2? I see, from your posted fstab, that you don't show what >partitions are what, other than swap, Yes, it is a Linux/Win2000 dual boot system (and my Win2000 is OK). I did "#cat /etc/fstab" and that was what I got. But on my RH7.2 this command gave me information on all /dev/hda* mappings. I don't know why. >So, *^¿assuming* that it is not, then check the filesystem, after making sure >that you're not on the filesystem being checked, this way: >*if* you are somewhat comfortable in responding to filesystem repair prompts, >use -r *instead* of the -a I show below; if you have no clue what I'm talking >about, use -a, which will automagically attempt to repair your filesystem. >This is like, if you're familiar with M$ scandisk, letting it stop and ask >you what it should do, when it finds a problem, versus setting the switch >that says, "you know all this better than I do, fix it all, and don't ask" ><g>. > $ umount /dev/hda1 > $ fsck -a /dev/hda1 > $ umount /dev/hda2 > $ fsck -a /dev/hda2 > >Hopefully, this will fix it. It usually does, unless your physical hard drive >is hosed. Yes, I tried these .... I booted in the rescue mode with RH7.2 installation disks and invoked the following commands: sh-2.05# chroot /mnt/sysimage /# umount /dev/hda2 /# fsck /dev/hda2 /# umount /dev/hda3 /# fsck /dev/hda3 I rebooted the system. The booting proess past the filesystem checks with the yellow "Pass" flags, but it hang at the following line: Bringing up interface lo Thanks for your help. Shi-Ping -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list