Re: sheeva plug usb install
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:11:20PM +0000, Stewart McLay wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have installed debian on a usb memory stick using the instructions
> from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html. I
> did a standard installation in a single partition.
>
> When I try to boot it seems to go well getting as far as running the run
> level 2 start-up scripts. But after that nothing. I suspect it should
> provide me with a login prompt at this point but I do not know why it
> has stalled.
>
> I have included the boot messages below. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stewart
Hello Stewart
It seems that fsck fails? Perhaps you could try mounting the stick
in a different running system and try to fsck the stick from there
before trying to boot from it?
> [ 33.625104] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
> [ 33.811317] loop: module loaded
> Loading kernel modules...done.
> Cleaning up ifupdown....
> Setting up networking....
> Activating lvm and md swap...done.
> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> /dev/sda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
>
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> /dev/sda1: 19/81440 files (10.5% non-contiguous), 25275/162816 blocks
>
> fsck died with exit status 1
> done.
Bob
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