On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:10:40PM +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > /mnt/sysimage does not exist because it was not created. Rescue did not > > know what information to use and since it did not find the system it > > halted before creating the mount point > I thought that might be why > > > You will need to know which partition contains /etc (the one you used > > as / ). > > to find that out, when in rescue mode, first run > > "fdisk -l /devb/hdX" (where hdX is the drive containing your > > installation) > That went fine. > > > Then you can do the following steps to get fstab back > > 1. mkdir /mnt/sysimage > > 2. mount /dev/hdX /mnt/sysimage > > 3. ls /mnt/sysimage (to verify you have the proper partition mounted) > > 4. cd /mnt/sysimage/etc > > 5. mv fstab~ fstab > > (or use cp to make sure you still have the backup) > > then you can do what ever you needed to do to edit it and make it > > proper. > That went fine too. I have now copied the fstab~ file to the fstab > file. That should have got me back to where I started - a full /home > directory but basically a working system. (no, i didn't use mv instead > of cp last time) > > BUT: > When I then reboot it goes quite a long way through, including the > little graphical progress bar... Then: > > "GDM could not write a new authorisation entry to disk. Possible out > of diskspace. Error: No space left on device." > > So I shut down, on the way down I noticed that "halt" and "kill" fail > on HAL, SMB and NMB - does that tell us anything? > > Restart in single user mode and go looking for that fstab file. Yup, > it's there and looks like it used to - so whaddup wi dat? The out of space error happened to me recently and sure enough when I booted into single user mode an execution of df showed I was indeed out of space. You are either booting from the wrong partition, have stuff on the wrong drive or something like that. Do a df and see what the space situation is. -- ======================================================================= Today is the first day of the rest of the mess. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
