Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-13 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Did it complain about some file system inconsistency? fsck can help only in these cases. Some details of the failure would help here. > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root parti

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / dev/hda1. I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the failure. I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right? However, I don't know what options to give it or *what

Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:04:31AM +0200, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > Running fsck is not necessarily a bad idea, but you should only run it > on _unmounted_ filesystems. Usually fsck is also safe with read-only mounts. You can turn existing mount to read-only with mount -o remount,ro

Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-11 04:35 +0200, Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / > dev/hda1. > > I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the > failure. > > I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right?

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / dev/hda1. I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the failure. I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right? However, I don't know what options to give it or *what

Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 10 April 2009 22:13:56 Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / > dev/hda1. > > I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the > failure. > > I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this r

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / dev/hda1. I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the failure. I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right? However, I don't know what options to give it or *what