On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:21:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list > > I've installed slackware 9.0 yesterday. > Everything worked fine and I rebooted it a couple of times > during these 24 hours. > An hour ago I rebooted it again and I was surprised to see > what happened. > > The system only mounts / and as read-only, which makes the > boot process get screwed up because > nothing can really load. >
Sounds like one of the partitions failed an fsck (I think it is the root partition. I figure that if it were another partition the root partition would be rw). Better handle this before further writing to it. > The fstab is untouched. > I tried doing mount -a and that did mount all the other > partitions but then the > root is still read only. When you're done handling it, 'mount -o remount -w /' > So I remounted it as read-write and > that worked, but the system isn't > useable because it didn't boot right. > mount's output shows / mounted twice, once as /dev/root (that > doesn't exist) and as rootfs. One note: the output of 'mount' tends to be problematic when the root FS is mounted RO, because it uses /etc/mtab . If you suspect strange things you should first look cat /proc/mounts . Though this does not seem to be the case here. > Didn't see the actuall /dev/hda2 partition mounted. > I have no idea what caused this as I haven't touched the > fstab, the rc scripts or nothing that could > have caused this. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
