I managed to severely disable my laptop last night. First, the symptoms: On boot, it gets to NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux Net4.0. insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/2003/0711.log Read-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20-benh/kernel/net/unix/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/2003/0711161051.ksyms Reod-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20-benh/kernel/net/unix/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20030711.log Read-only file system INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
(It's the same no matter which runlevel I try.) At which point it looks like a lot failed, but maybe I can log in: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable (none) tty1 (none) login: I attempt to login as root, it checks my password, gives a standard login message, and then this error: Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Read-only file system login[21]: unable to change tty `/dev/tty1' for user `root' login[21]: ROOT LOGIN on `tty1' Then it reverts to a login prompt. Logging in as myself is no better, but instead of the ROOT LOGING line, I get: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ and then a new login prompt. Now the question: my CD drive on the laptop died about a year ago, and I have no floppy drive, so is there any way to boot into a rescue mode (that doesn't try to write log files, for instance) to try to fix this? The only other option I can think of would be to mount the drive on another computer and try to fix it that way, but of course that requires a laptop-to-desktop IDE adapter that I don't have (yet). Thanks, Greg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
