On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:48:17PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > David Fokkema said: > >> What I don't understand is why it worked last night and then today it > >> was > >> broken. I wasn't messing around with kernel installation stuff or > >> anything > >> unusual. It was a clean shutdown, so I doubt there are the usual bad > >> blocks from when the system crashes. > > > > No... You didn't even do an upgrade? > > No upgrades--in fact i haven't apt-ed in weeks (literally). > > >> > Basically, I'm puzzled and lost, :-( You need a guru... > >> > >> I guess I could just re-install the base system and start over... :( > > > > Debian shouldn't need that... There are Great Mysteries in life which > > can fascinate me for days, weeks, months or even years... Wicked errors > > like these ones not being among them. > > I haven't got that kind of time though. ;)
I travel to work by bike. Takes me 45-60 minutes, twice a day, ;-) > > Just some desperate and incoherent thoughts... > > - Are you able to boot from cd or floppy and specify > > root=/dev/hda1 in lilo? > > It's already set to that. Well, I mean during you're rescue boot. Insert the cd/floppy, and run linux root=/dev/hda1 from the lilo command line. IIRC, you mentioned that you booted your rescue thing and then _later_ mounted /dev/hda1. I'm curious what happens if you try to boot from /dev/hda1 directly using your rescue kernel. > > - After you ran lilo and it spat some random warnings, you did > > try to reboot? What did it gave you? Still the fourties? > > I always reboot after changing lilo and running it again...otherwise how > would I know if my changes had worked? I'm not getting "errors" I'm > getting "warnings"... I reread your posts. You already mentioned it, sorry. > > - What rescue media did you use? > > Single-CD install CD. > > > - Did something do peculiar things to your bios? > > No. In fact as part of the troubleshooting I tried returning all settings > to the factory default. I had to update the order of install so that CDROM > was first, but i tested pure factory defaults first. > > > - What _did_ you do between starting up and shutting down your > > machine that might (although unlikely) be relevant? Tasks done > > as root, ... > > umm, halted the computer? Seriously. The only thing I've done as root in > the last three weeks is install the Morphon XML and CSS editors (.bin file > that has an installer downloaded from their site); halt the computer; and > edit the fstab a few times to get some Joliet CDs working. Yesterday I > installed the Morphon editor--that's it. In fact /root/.bash_history > confirms that's all I've done. As sudo I've made a few changes to my > apache configuration file and restarted the server; deleted some > Firebird/Mozilla files from /tmp; and that's pretty much it. I'm at a loss here. No suggestions any more, sorry, :-( David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
