dank@hwr.arizona.edu wrote: > I had some disk errors and shutdown to reseat cables. > The system, as-is, has been running and reboot more than once > with no problems before now. Perhaps the shutdown wasn't > graceful?? Probably, but this seems worse than that. Was there any lightning or other electrical surges near the computer? > On boot up the / partition came up read-only and /var /proc etc. > all are unmounted. fsck is run on all the disks and the > system disk is clean for all 3 partitions hda1 (/) hda2 (/var) > and hda3 (/t0) fsck not run on hda5 (should be swap). All of > my filesystems appear to be ext2. Swap doesn't need to be checked, so that's ok. > 2 other disks on a PCI controller are giving DMA errors and > interrupt errors. I don't think this is related. Try removing the PCI card, if it's broken it might be causing problems with the other controller(s). > boot sequence drops me to a maint. root login prompt and > I log in. But, trying to mount /var or anything else fails > with this error: "mount: only root can do that" > Same error when I try to remount / rw. Could you post your /etc/passwd file? If it has password hashes in it you can remove those. Also post the output of "id" when in maintenance mode please. > If I go to a normal user level login prompt neither root nor any other > user can login. Only at the maint prompt can I get logged in. That sounds somewhat normal for / being mounted ro and no /proc. > I can boot from a knoppix CD This is probably going to be very useful. -- David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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