> [ ... ]
>
> try Timo's rescue CD (debian based):
>
>http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/download.html
>
> If I'm not mistaken his bootimage uses initrd, and does some
> autodetection of drives. If the autodetection fails, it's possible
> to get a shell early in the boot process and load the n
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
...
> Well, I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to
> figure out how to make a usable boot floppy ... or perhaps a
> boot CD ... I really don't care which one I have, as long as
> I have _some_ source for a boot record besid
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Is there something special I have to do to tell my kernel
> that there are SCSI disks at the time I make the boot floppy?
That all depends:)
It's a long time since I made boot floppies (prefe
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Quoting Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > ...more likely your kernel doesn't know about SCSI disks, so
> > software.
>
> I've been booting up and running off of SCSI disks day
> in and day out for weeks on gthe same kernel, whe
Quoting Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > I have some more info about my problem that might be useful.
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
> ...
> > Would this indicate a hardware problem? O
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> I have some more info about my problem that might be useful.
>
> I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set.
> My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at
> the "boot:" prompt ...
>
> rescue root
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:26:26PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
...
> > mount -o remount,rw /
>
> Well, that didn't work, either. Here's the error:
>
> EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option 0
> mount: / not mounted already, or bad option
I think you us
Quoting Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [ ... ]
>
> Well, I'm using LILO. I want to create a proper rescue disk,
> and I used the mkboot utility to do so. It told me that it created
> a proper disk, but when I tried to boot off of it, I got a kernel
> panic with a message that stated that th
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [ ... ]
>
> Gack!
>
> How old is the drive? Any chance the issue is termination or a
> misconfigured jumper? You're using an Adaptec 2940?
I'll check the jumper later, when I open up my box. Yes, I believe
it's a 2940
> [ ... ]
>
> Lloyd Zusman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:29:53AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > >
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question
> > > is this: what cause
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question
> > is this: what caused the filesystem to become read-only to
> > begin with? Could it be hardware
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ...
>
> Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted on it
> > (I
> > surmise this because y
Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ...
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [ ... ]
>
> 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted on it
> (I
> surmise this because you don't mention /usr or /home).
>
> 2) / is readonly either because you provid
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:13:03PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
[ snip ]
> The problem is that yesterday, my root file partition started booting
> up read-only. Because /var and /tmp are on that partition, my system
> is virtually useless.
[ snip ]
> A while ago, I had changed my /etc/fstab by
I have some more info about my problem that might be useful.
I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set.
My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at
the "boot:" prompt ...
rescue root=/dev/sda2
However, this errored out quickly. I got a couple screens'
wort
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:56 -0500 (EST)
> "Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> > in the options field try putting 'defaults'
>> >
>> > you can also jump to runlevel 1 'init 1', and when you login
>> > type:
>> >
>> > mount / -o remo
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:56 -0500 (EST)
"Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you VERY much for this help.
>
> I have a question though ... see below:
>
> > Lloyd Zusman said:
> >
> >> #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> >> /dev/sda2/ ext3
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:13:03 -0500 (EST)
"Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my testing+unstable system, and
> I'm not sure whether it's a hardware or software problem. It
> has rendered my system virtually useless. But before I start
> fooling around with hardw
Thank you VERY much for this help.
I have a question though ... see below:
> Lloyd Zusman said:
>
>> #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
>> /dev/sda2/ ext3 0 1
>^^
>
> in the options field try pu
Lloyd Zusman said:
> #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/sda2/ ext3 0 1
^^
in the options field try putting 'defaults'
you can also jump to runlevel 1 'init 1', and when you login
type:
m
I'm having a problem with my testing+unstable system, and
I'm not sure whether it's a hardware or software problem. It
has rendered my system virtually useless. But before I start
fooling around with hardware, I'd like to see if my problem might
be familiar to any of you, and if perhaps there is
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