On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:39:20PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > At 10:10 AM 05/13/2000 +0930, John Pearson wrote: > >On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > > > Help!! > > > > > > I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some > > > (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for > > > Apache was OK, se we re-booted. > > > > > > At re-boot I now get: > >... > >It's trying to fsck your extneded partition, rather than your true root > >partition. My guess is that /etc/fstab is wrong, and that it lists > >/dev/hda1 as root instead of /dev/hda6. The fact that you get to > >single-user mode means that hte kernel and LILO are configured correctly. > > -- John, Bingo. Thanks. > > I now have another problem.. > > The boot goes into > > INIT: entering run level 2 > Starting system log daemon: syslogd > > and hangs... >
Funny thing - I had the *exact same thing* the other day setting up a new machine. I didn't formally diagnose the problem, but noticed that the fancy new MB (MB 6136PRO) I was using had assigned the same IRQ to 2 network cards and my SCSI controller. I fixed it by shuffling cards and re-installing (after tearing my hair out for an hour or three, and on a machine with no user data on it, it seemed the expedient thing). Assuming you already have good hardware and no resource conflicts, try re-installing the sysklogd package in case the problem is a corrupt file. > I edited /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd -> /etc/init.d/sysklogd to give hello > messages, and find that is hangs on the actual call to start /sbin/syslogd. > Commenting out this call and everything seems to run OK as far as I can > tell. Trying to manually start syslogd also hangs. I notice that during > boot a ctl-break shows a ps like table of processes, and that does show two > instances of syslogd running. > > Any ideas? > > The other broken symptom is that networking does not work; ifconfig reports > everything fine, but ping hangs, and the hub shows the link not active. > During boot the ethernet card shows proper initialization, and seems OK. > This is almost uncanny - the one unresolved issue with the machine I mentioned above is a 3c905 Bommerand card that configures OK, but passes no packets; ping, telnet, etc. all return no output, and the packet counters shown by ifconfig are stuck at zero. I'm back to the site today with a DOS boot disk and 3Com's configuration utility to see if disabling Plug'n'Play mode (or some similar trick) fixes things. Maybe you should look into that? John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services