Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Roger Heflin wrote: >>rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add >>noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and >>change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. >> >>It

Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Roger Heflin wrote: >rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add >noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and >change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. > >It should boot then, and you have the machine fully up

Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Roger Heflin
rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. It should boot then, and you have the machine fully up were you can do better debugging. ie mount /boot may

Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I can't build a bootable 3.12.6 kernel, it seems to die quite fast with a trace blaming binfmt-some-hex-number. Or fail well into the boot waiting for / to come available. But if I choose a shell at that failure, it isn't / that is not shown in a blkid report, it is /boot, named

Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I can't build a bootable 3.12.6 kernel, it seems to die quite fast with a trace blaming binfmt-some-hex-number. Or fail well into the boot waiting for / to come available. But if I choose a shell at that failure, it isn't / that is not shown in a blkid report, it is /boot, named

Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Roger Heflin
rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. It should boot then, and you have the machine fully up were you can do better debugging. ie mount /boot may

Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Roger Heflin wrote: rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. It should boot then, and you have the machine fully up were

Re: Probably silly Q about bootable partitions

2013-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 31 December 2013, Roger Heflin wrote: rescue boot it, change the /boot mount line in /etc/fstab to add noauto (like noauto,defaults...or whatever else you already have) and change the last column to 0 to disable fsck on it. It should