Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I have some more information. > > I found that if boot single user mode and I wait long enough at the > INIT: verions 2.86 booting > screen, I can hit Ctrl-C and it will dump me to a shell. Some commands > like 'ls' work fine, but a lot of commands seem to hang (I can Ctrl-C > out of them). The 'mount' command says that the root file system is > mounted (rw). > /dev/sdb2 on / type ext3 (rw) > > If I try to touch any files, however, I get the error message that the > root file system is mounted read-only. /proc/mounts on the other hand > says: > /dev/root / ext3 ro,data=ordered 0 0 I believe that is a longstanding bug, the rw/ro thing. It really is mounted ro. You can remount it as rw mount /dev/sdb2 / -oremount,rw,data=ordered What are some examples of the "lot of commands" that "seem to hang"? What else is mounted? Anything mount with ntfs3g in fstab? -Andy
