After lots of head scratching and failed attempts I came across the culprit... I made /dev/hdb2 ro (read-only) in fstab. Curiously, I had not needed to specifically make it ro on any other machines. Some just said defaults (and I tried that unsuccesfully). Maybe with 2 hard drives and the 2nd hard drive containing / one has to be more specific.
--- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually have this running at @expert but only had > one response... pretty dead over there... > > let me clarify things a bit... > > I had two boxes previously running 7.2 with ext2 > box-x (broken box in question) and box-lt (laptop) > > after upgrading to 8.1, I decided to also upgrade to > ext3. After recreating mkinird, box-lt worked > without > issue but box-x had this fsck problem. This is with > the stock 8.1 kernel 2.4.8-26. > > I was able to resolve box-x problem by re-ordering > the"global" section at the top of lilo.conf and > adding > in read-only into this section (it already was on > every individual kernel already... don't know why it > also needed to be there). > > This worked fine until I upgraded box-x to > 2.4.8-36.1. > I have not upgraded box-lt yet because it is running > win4lin and they do not have an upgraded kernel for > this yet. A new lilo.conf was automatically created > during upgrade (which also did not have the > read-only > in the global section). I tried putting read-only on > the new lilo.conf, I tried using the old lilo-conf > only changing kernel versions, and I tried > mkinitrd... > all failed. > > This is the status so far. > > status of df -T on box-x: > > [root@mom root]# df -T > Filesystem Type 1k-blocks Used Available > Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb2 ext3 3016176 2390920 472040 > 84% / > /dev/hda2 ext3 23393 3082 19103 > 14% /boot > none tmpfs 63344 0 63344 > 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda3 ext3 903052 746108 110980 > 88% /home > /dev/hda1 vfat 1625700 1098676 527024 > 68% /mnt/windows > si-mandrake.domain:/usr/lib/corel > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /usr/lib/corel > si-mandrake.domain:/usr/doc/wpohelpfiles > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /usr/doc/wpohelpfiles > si-mandrake.domain:/usr/include/wine-wpo2000 > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /usr/include/wine-wpo2000 > si-mandrake.domain:/usr/share/fonts/wprequired > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /usr/share/fonts/wprequired > si-mandrake.domain:/etc/fonttastic > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% > /etc/fonttasticsi-mandrake.domain:/usr/share/fonts/userfonts > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /usr/share/fonts/userfonts > si-mandrake.domain:/var/log/fonttastic > nfs 9018696 6470592 2273224 > 75% /var/log/fonttastic > si-mandrake.domain:/home/mom/.wpo2000 > nfs 2530240 2243736 183688 > 93% /home/mom/.wpo2000 > > > --- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu Nov 29, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0800, SI > > Reasoning wrote: > > > > (Let's move this over to expert@ where it belongs) > > > > > That maybe the case...but I upgraded two systems > > from > > > 7.2 to 8.1 but only had problems with one of > > them... I > > > was able to resolve it with the old kernel by > > mkinitrd > > > and placing read-only in the global section at > the > > > beginning of lilo.conf. That does not seem to > work > > > with the new kernel. > > > > Ok... both systems use ext2? But now that I've > seen > > your other > > message (about problems with -26mdk), I'm now > > confused on your > > definition of "new kernel". Exactly what kernel > are > > you using on > > either machine, and what is the output of "df -T"? > > > > > > > potential "uniqueness": > > > > > - 2 disk system with /boot on hda2 and / on > > hdb2 > > > > > - upgraded mdk7.2 to 8.1 > > > > > - migrated from ext2 to ext3 (previous > kernel) > > > > > - k6-2 400 cpu (in case it is an amd chipset > > > > issue) > > > > > > > > I suspect, and this is by no means concrete, > > that > > > > your problem may > > > > lie with the ext2->ext3 conversion. I > installed > > an > > > > 8.1 system > > > > recently using ext3, but it was formatted as > > ext3. > > > > The two disk > > > > system should make no difference, and I can't > > see as > > > > a 7.2->8.1 update > > > > would be the cause of the problem. > > > > > > > > When I have a chance, I'll try installing a > 8.0 > > > > ext2-based system in > > > > vmware and then upgrade to 8.1 and converting > > the > > > > ext2 partitions to > > > > ext3. But it may take some days before I am > > able to > > > > do this. > > > > -- > > vdanen (at) mandrakesoft.com, OpenPGP key > available > > on www.keyserver.net > > 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 > 2043 > > D0E5 FE6F 2AFD > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature > > > > ===== > SI Reasoning > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor > safety." > Benjamin Franklin > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, > just $8.95/month. > http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 > ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
