Graham Turner wrote:
Andy, thanks for mail back
i think i had but anyways re-run of "fsck -f /dev/hda2" gives no error
indication as completes checks
duly noted on labels etc and i will change back
any other views ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Green" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: mounting root filesystem issue ?
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
I think the initial issue was a power outage, causing the machine to
shutdown in an unorderly manner. The installation was originally a RH9
/chmod: changing permissions of /var/log/wtmp'; read-only file system /
/etc /
You don't mention if you did a forced fsck on /dev/hda2, seeing stuff
like your FS is readonly can mean that your filesystem is in dire need
of a good combing.
If you boot off the install DVD or CD1, and choose
linux rescue
you will be able to do
fsck -f /dev/sda2
note that the first line was originally /label=/ /but i changed this
on reading potential issues with labels (even though e2label reports
corrected labels).
Similarly the boot command in grub.conf was changed so as to read;
/kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/hda2 /
/initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img /
Labels will save you some hassle when you upgrade your kernel... recent
kernels changed accessing IDE stuff to go through the SCSI layer,
meaning that IDE HDD device names change from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx.
Labels allow the right partition to be found despite this, whereas with
your current setup naming the device using the old names, it won't
succeed to boot.
-Andy
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I was having a problem with no swap partitions being found. I looked at
my fstab and both swap partitions had huge long labels. That was the
problem. I changed everything on fstab from lables to actual locations
like /dev/sdb2 and it's all working fine now. Both swap partitions are
found.
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