Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Aug2020 08:17, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >Question: how to fsck on / which is mounted and busy in emergency mode? If you don't have a rescue CDROM (or the like) the traditional approach is: remount it readonly, then fsck, then reboot. mount -o remount,ro / Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___

Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On August 11, 2020 11:23:14 AM EDT, Michael Hennebry wrote: >On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Geoffrey Leach wrote: ... >> Question: how to fsck on / which is mounted and busy in emergency >mode? > >I think the answer is you don't. >Boot from a floppy or something and run fsck from there. Boot with the ker

Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Geoffrey Leach wrote: The problem was a bad ssector on /home. Fsck solved it. Question: how to fsck on / which is mounted and busy in emergency mode? I think the answer is you don't. Boot from a floppy or something and run fsck from there. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.nd

Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:00:07 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 11:26, wrote: > > > Reboot stopped at emergency mode. > > > > journalctl -xb does not list any complaints (that I can find), but > > there's clearly something wrong! Any suggestions as to diagnosis? > > > >

Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 11:26, wrote: > Reboot stopped at emergency mode. > > journalctl -xb does not list any complaints (that I can find), but > there's clearly something wrong! Any suggestions as to diagnosis? > > kernel is 5.7.9.200. selinux is disabled. > > livecd boot is OK; disk is accessib

OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread geoff
Reboot stopped at emergency mode. journalctl -xb does not list any complaints (that I can find), but there's clearly something wrong! Any suggestions as to diagnosis? kernel is 5.7.9.200. selinux is disabled. livecd boot is OK; disk is accessible. I saved the output of journlctl, so i