On Wed 03 May, Ken Paton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just managed to get Linux installed on my RiscPC, after many
> attempts. I can now boot into Linux but during the startup it reports
> the following - "An error occurred during the file system check,
> dropping you into a shell. The system will re-boot when you leave the
> shell"
>
> I can get into the root login from there, but it seems as if the entire
> hard disk is read only which prevents me doing much more than that.
Yes. The root filesystem is mouted read-only to start with for the
filesystem check to go ahead safely. If this check goes OK then it
reamounts the filesystem read-write and continues booting. (this is all
standard Linux/Unix boot proceedure).
> Can anyone suggest a solution for the above?
Well, it depends exactly what has gone wrong. Which drive/partition are
you booting from?
You should be able to exit the shell with ctrl-D or 'logout' (although
this may just have you going round in circles if it always fails this
check). Worth a try.
To see what the machine is doing at this point look in the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script which is te one being executed. This will
show the remount command if you want to try that and see what happens.
fsck is the command for fixing filesystems so you should try runnig that
manually to get some info an what the problem is. man fsck gives details.
HTH
Wookey
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