On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:11:20PM +0000, Stewart McLay wrote: > Dear All, > > I have installed debian on a usb memory stick using the instructions > from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html. I > did a standard installation in a single partition. > > When I try to boot it seems to go well getting as far as running the run > level 2 start-up scripts. But after that nothing. I suspect it should > provide me with a login prompt at this point but I do not know why it > has stalled. > > I have included the boot messages below. Can anyone offer any suggestions? > > Regards, > > Stewart
Hello Stewart It seems that fsck fails? Perhaps you could try mounting the stick in a different running system and try to fsck the stick from there before trying to boot from it? > [ 33.625104] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal > [ 33.811317] loop: module loaded > Loading kernel modules...done. > Cleaning up ifupdown.... > Setting up networking.... > Activating lvm and md swap...done. > Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > /dev/sda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > /dev/sda1: 19/81440 files (10.5% non-contiguous), 25275/162816 blocks > > fsck died with exit status 1 > done. Bob -- "If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?" -- Buddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
