point taken, about starting a clean installation and moving stuff across,
but would be keen to try 4 a bit on restoring this installation
as i read it, the files on /dev/hda2 are intact as per our mounting it from
the rescue mode ?
don't know if this is relevant but on a working system, /dev/hda2 is mounted
as type 'ext3'
on the **'d system when i run the mount /dev/hda2 / it mounts as type
'ext2' - only mention this as i found it from yesterday's googling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Green" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: mounting root filesystem issue ?
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
final state of boot is that it gets to the login prompt, where i can
enter a login name but then does not ask for a password !
I guess this can be because your root filesystem is left mounted
read-only...
on the way it stalls at 'starting system logger' which i would guess
times out and proceeds
Hum
usbfs seg faults when 'starting /udev' - if that answers your qu.
correctly
init scripts as i understand run
Right.
Well if it was me, knowing that I pushed my luck pretty hard attempting
a Redhat 9 --> FC6 upgrade, especially after the box was trashed
beforehand, I would ask myself if it will be quicker overall to thresh
around meddling trying to fix the problems, or to place a new HDD in the
box, clean install FC6 or F7 on to it, and then add the original HDD
back in and copy the important stuff on to the new drive, before
removing the old HDD and keeping as an archive. Probably the answer to
that doesn't depend much on the complexity of what is on the old drive,
since you radically updated all the daemons anyway you will probably
have to go around fixing things up.
If you want to meddle on, press A at the grub menu and add the letter S
to the kernel commandline. This might get you up in "single user mode"
allowing you to look around. If that succeded, you might try
mount
to see if your / really is mounted read-only, then
mount /dev/hda2 / -oremount,rw
and see if that does succeed to remount it rw.
Also on the grub prompt, try adding
selinux=0
to see if that is causing troubles.
-Andy
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