On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:53 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 2, 2007 at 1:18 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ayer, > Paul W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good Morning, > > > > Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. > > Yes, lots of people have gotten that error, for lots of different reasons. > > > Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390 packs and when I tried to > > update the /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the / file system was full. > > What does your kernel command line look like? "cat /proc/cmdline" will tell > you what the system booted with. (You should be able to issue that command > after entering your root password, and seeing if you can manually mount the > proc file system, if it isn't already mounted.) > > But, it sounds like you may have updated /etc/fstab, and gotten things wrong. > Fixing that may solve your whole problem. >
Also, in your /etc/fstab, are you mounting / by label? Perhaps you should try changing to root=/dev/dasda1 (or whatever) in /etc/zipl.conf, in case any of the 53 disks have an ext filesystem label of "/", which would cause a problem because it's a duplicate. Can you post your fstab here? > You also need to figure out why your root file system is full and fix that > first, so you can save any updates you make to fstab. > > > So I could not update that. > > > > Did the reboot thinking that oh well the disks will just go away (as > > they will not be added to the start up) and the boot would not work ... > > > > Running RHEL 4.4 > > > > Error below; > > > > [/sbin/fsck.ext2 (1) -- /] fsck.ext2 -a / > > /: > > These next errors are the ones that makes me think you've fouled up your > fstab. > > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > =snip- > > WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno > > field. I will kludge around things for you, but you > > should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. > > > > fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open / > > [FAILED] > -snip- > > Give root password for maintenance > > (or type Control-D to continue): > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Account Manager Red Hat, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
