A preliminary request: please turn off the "feature" of your mailer that
repeats your message in html format. It's not customary on this list, and
some of us find the extra bulkiness of the messages an inconvenience.
It appears that the rc.S script cannot execute apps that it needs to run due
to permissions problems. Since it's 4.0, it can't be very old ... so first
question is: did it ever run correctly? That is, did you ever boot Slackware
4.0 successfully from the hard disk?
The permissions problem appears to be in the /etc/fstab entry for the
filesystem, since your messages report the filesystem mountof your root
partition as reading:
>/dev/hdb7 on / type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
^^^^^^
The underlined (undercareted? yet another e-mail neologism <sigh>) part is
the problem - the filesystem is set to block execution of binaries.
To fix it: boot from a bootdisk/rootdisk pair or the CD (whichever is more
convenient for you). Mount by hand the hard-disk Linux filesystem (something
like "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb7 /mnt"). Use a text editor to look at
/mnt/etc/fstab and see if there is an option "noexec" there for this
filesystem. If there is, remove it. You should then be able to reboot into
Slackware.
If this doesn't work, then I don't know why the "noexec" option is being
chosen. You *may* have to reinstall, unless someone else spots the problem.
or you might try reporting the "dmesg" messages that precede these ones -
specifically the ones where the kernel tells what filesystems it is finding
and VFS says what it is doing.
Good luck. Hope this helps.
At 06:20 PM 6/10/99 -0500, Wes wrote:
>Today something strange happened, I rebooted my machine and now it wont
reboot into slackware. Im running slackware 4.0 with 2.2.6 kernel
>
>This is what i get now when i try to reboot it.
>
>Remounting root device with read-write enabled
>/dev/hdb7 on / type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>/etc/rc.d/rc.S /bin/rm Permission Denied
>/etc/rc.d/rc.S /sbin/mount Permission Denied
>/etc/rc.d/rc.S /bin/rm Permission Denied
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