Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142737 I have nothing further to add at this time. On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:21 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 03:58 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mo, den 13.12.2004 schrieb Dan Stromberg um 3:44: > > > > > I have an FC3 system, that was happy, but is now unhappy. This may be > > > related to someone, who shall remain nameless, having shut off the power > > > on it without doing an orderly shutdown. Then again, maybe it was > > > because of a "yum -y update", because I put off rebooting for a while > > > after that. > > > > > > Anyway, now when it tries to boot, I see: > > > > > > Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting > > > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > > > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 > > > 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active > > > > Booting without boot parameter "quiet" shows more? > > > > > ...and that's it. I've left it there for over and hour, and it never > > > gets past that. > > > > > > I booted off of an FC3 rescue cd, and found that I could mount the /boot > > > partition, but I cannot mount the / partition. I ran various lvm > > > commands that identified two lvm volumes on the system. > > > fsck'ing /dev/hda2 (which is /) is getting me no where though - it just > > > says "invalid argument". > > > > No, you will have to check the filesystem of the LVM volume. It is > > correct to boot with CD1 into rescue mode (or the rescue CD), then let > > all what it finds be mounted only read-only. You have this choice. Then > > fsck the LVM. > > > > Alexander > > I was kind of thinking along those lines too, but when I boot up into > the rescue CD and let it try to find my fedora install, it gets really > confused. More specifically, it says: > > Searching for Fedora Core installations... > > 0% install exited abnormally -- received signal 15 > kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes > > > Additional information: > > If I remove "quiet" and add "single" to my boot options, I get: > > EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. > EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs > > ...and there it hangs. > > > Also, I ran memtest86 on the box for a while (a little over an hour), > and found no errors. > > Thanks! > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
