J D wrote:
> okay, i figured out what is wrong. my hard drive has all of a sudden become
> read only.
It's normally read-only during a fair portion of the boot process; however,
before this process ends, the filesystems are remounted rw, normally.
> i didn't think this was possible, but here i am.
> what i don't understand is how it got that way, and how to fix it. any help
> would be great.
>
> also, i have looked in my fstab file. for some reason, only stuff for the
> zip drive is there. now, considering i don't know very much, i think that
> that is a major problem.
Definitely. The various filesystems for your Linux configuration should
definitely be in the fstab file.
If youc can, then provide copies of your /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files.
You should also include the output of dmesg. Redirect the output of dmesg to a
file which you'ld then copy+paste, through what ever means you wish, into the
body of the email.
dmesg > dmesg.out 2>&1
This should or must be run as root (don't know if it can be run as any other
user).
Don't send as attachments, because I, for one anyway, certainly won't open
them. Very rare is the attachment that I'll open. Do a copy+paste, or insert
the texts by other means.
I'ld definitely suggest that people not use attachments in these mailing lists;
just a general rule of thumb.
If you don't know of a way to do this and you're, for example, using netscape,
then open an additional navigator window, open the text file in that window, do
a Select All, Copy, and then paste into the body of the email message. This is
one way which definitely works, with netscape 4.05 anyway.
mike
>
>
> >From: Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [expert] Booting problem-----more
> >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:22:47 -0400
> >
> >J D wrote:
> >
> > > i got into linuxconf. when i got to access local volumes, all it has
> >is:
> > >
> > > /dev/zip for source, /mnt/zip for mount point, vfat for FsType.
> > > it says it three times. there is nothing else. could this be the
> >source of
> > > my problems? i think i know what's going on, but since i'm new to this,
> >i
> > > don't want to get ahead of myself.
> >
> >Understandable.
> >
> >Add the dos drive or partitions, if that's what you want to do; however,
> >you
> >need to know what the /dev/{filename} is. You can find that out with
> >fdisk.
> >If your dos partition is on the first hdd, then run fdisk without any
> >arguments; if on the second hdd, then run with /dev/hdb for an argument.
> >The
> >screen you need to use is Config | Boot, instead of Config | Filesystems.
> >
> >mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On the other hand, that's for adding filesystem fstab mounts, whereas I
> >believe
> >what you're trying to do is to configure lilo for a boot manager.
> >
> >In this case, you need to provide the following information:
> >
> >- the contents of your lilo.conf file, and
> >
> >- what hdd your dos boot partition is on, hda or hdb.
> >
> >Also, look using either fdisk, or looking at your fstab file, to see which
> >/dev/hd[ab]{n} device file your dos boot partition is mapped to. If it's
> >at
> >the beginning of hda, then it's probably /dev/hda1, and in this case, if
> >you
> >want to place lilo boot manager in the MBR (master boot record), then you
> >need
> >to make sure that the first line of your lilo.conf file (in the /etc
> >directory)
> >is
> >
> > boot = /dev/ hda
> >
> >You can configure lilo using linuxconf, but you described the wrong screen,
> >above.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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