On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
>Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
>that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
>system in read/write mode.
>
> I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
>way to get to a console or linuxconf.
Hmmm.... could it be that you accidentally did something to fstab that the
boot sequence does not like? Did you accidentally create a new little
partition somewhere on disk? If the latter is the case, it can be that the
root partition has been moved from where it was (like /dev/hda1) to the
next partition (/dev/hda2).
You could get into the system (in that case) by typing on the lilo prompt:
linux root=/dev/hda2
to override the fstab entry. Just guessing, though.
I think when you do a new install, and you have all things User-based
(/usr and /home) on separate partitions, you could save a lot of things
you already set up by not formatting these partitions, just the root
partition.
> I have read and tried many things and none have worked. I suppose you have
>to choose Grub at installation and it is a little late now.
Even when you initially set up lilo, you can install Grub afterwards by
simply running it as root.
Paul
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