On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
->
-> First, there's no need to modify mtab; that's the current state of the
-> system. You only need to modify fstab.
->
-> By the same token, the empty mtab is just empty 'cause the mount fails,
-> but you already knew that; the mtab~ is from when you edited the mtab.
Not necessarily.
When mount and umount run they create a lockfile for themselves so that
other instances of mount or umount don't try to sieze mtab. The lock file
is mtab~. So if the system crashes or the mounting/unmounting program
crashes while the lock file is in place, you won't be able to mount or
unmount volumes.
So I would get rid of the mtab~.
See my message on this list dated Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:34:21 -0700
entitled: "jaZip 0.22 outdated".
BTW, don't _ever_ edit mtab. It is the OS's record of what is
mounted. Unmount things instead.
->
-> The problem here is that your /boot/System.map must be out of sync with
-> the boot image, but since you didn't recompile the kernel or otherwise
-> change it (if I follow you correctly) I don't see why this is.
->
-> I'd probably re-rerun lilo as a first pass, and if that doesn't work
-> build and install a new kernel.
->
-> (I'm not sure what the recommended approach here is, frankly; I just
-> let it build it where "make bzlilo" likes to put it and modify
-> lilo.conf to match, ditching the /boot dir, but that's obviously not
-> the appoach you want to take.
->
-> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
-> | Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think that was no one
-> out | there.
-> |
-> | Actually, I dropped one back to v6.1 for the rescue disk. Unfortunately I
-> | can't out just what I have to fix.
-> | At 03:00 PM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
-> |
-> | >Well, you know already that you should never, ever be without a rescue
-> | >disk.
-> | >
-> | >That said, just start and install in and use ALT-F2 (or F3, or F4) to go
-> | >to another terminal window. You should be able to patch up things from
-> | >there.
-> | >
-> | >(At least this trick works with RedHat; I assume it will with Mandrake
-> | >as well.)
-> | >
-> | >You're in a sorta "funny" environment, but you can probably stumble
-> | >around ok there.
-> |
-> | I'm not too sure what's funny. I use one partition for production and the
-> | other for playing with new things.
-> |
-> | >On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
-> | >| Mandrake Helios. This morning I did something really dumb. I had the
-> | >| following (part of the partitions):
-> | >|
-> | >| /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults
-> | >| /dev/hdc10 /Venus ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
-> | >| /dev/hdc11 /programs ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
-> | >|
-> | >| where Venus was an older RH installation. I deleted everything on
-> | >| /dev/hdc10 and moved all of the files on /program to /dev/hdc10 and then
-> | >| renamed the two mount points in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
-> | >|
-> | >| Unfortunately when I attempt to reboot into Helios the boot hangs on:
-> | >|
-> | >| Setting /boot/System.map to the current running kernel
-> | >|
-> | >| until I hit CTRL-C, at which point the boot moves on to:
-> | >|
-> | >| Booting other file systems
-> | >|
-> | >| where it hangs completly until the three finger salute.
-> | >|
-> | >| Using Explore2fs I find that mtab is now empty and mtab~ has the old file
-> | >| mount point information.
-> | >|
-> | >| I have a floppy boot disk, but not a rescue disk.
-> | >|
-> | >| Help!!!!!
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