On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:44 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > > > No changes to the drives, BIOS or anything like that. Did an update via yum (I > > > think it was on Saturday), reset and nothing - failed to boot completely. > > > > GRUB and a hang implies it is choking very early indeed. The MBR is > > ok because it said GRUB, but after that its a bit suspect and it > > seems its not finding the the right blocks for GRUB (or something > attached/changed > > the BIOS config order - eg a USB bootable device - one box here fails > > much the way you describe if I accidentally leave a USB key in it during > > boot) > > I've disconnected everything except the main HD and the video card. No other > cards or drives are in the box. I get the same result. I'll try killing USB next. > > > The fsck result is hopeful - but did you just get an immediate > > "clean" return from ext3 or did you force a full check ? (-f option) ? > > Did it with -f and it was clean. > > > "It does complain that some of the points have not been mounted due > > to a problem" > > > > Actual exact message text is good, thats why error handlers don't > > just all print "It broke" > > The error is along the lines of some of the devices have failed to mount. I'm > assuming that when the rescue disc boots, it reads the fstab on the drive it's > trying to mount and use them. The only one which looks like it's failed to > mount is /dev/hda1 which is where the /boot directory is. > > TTFN > > Paul Hmm, that make sense. Without access to /boot, the second stage loader is unavailable. I've just quickly scanned all the mails in this thread (on my machine, may not be all of them), and I didn't see anything about how your disks are set up. But I *do* remember reading something about an ext2 partition and a LVM setup. Can you please give me the skinny on that again? Is /dev/hda1 what you mount at /boot, or does it just contain /boot? Is that the drive which passed the fsck -f you've written about already? When booted into rescue, can you hand-mount /dev/hda1, or does it fail their, as well? Can you past your /etc/fstab in here as well, please? Andy
