boot problem
hello all,
My P-II wont boot all of a sudden.
I've been in the middle of setting it up. Fresh install, updating,
upgrading packages, etc.
I probably wasn't careful enough to reboot after every little change so
I can't pinpoint when the problem started in relation to what I was
doing, just that this morning it wont boot.
Etch, i386
It won't boot in single-user mode.
It will boot to init=/bin/sh, so the LVM dev mapper system is working.
The problem is in the /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh script, it gets an
error when it goes to remount the / fs rw (after the filesystem is
declared clean).
"Cannot change data mode or remount
mount / not mounted already or bad option".
Unfortunatly, the script doesn't stop the booting process when it can't
mount / rw so it goes along and things don't work because / isn't
mounted rw.
I can manually mount / rw with:
3 mount -n -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/raid--1-root /
Note on the device name: this is LVM over hardware raid. The hardware
raid1 looks like a scsi disk (I forget if its sda or sdb), as does the
hardware raid0.
/ is unencrypted, while others (e.g. home, /var/tmp, /var/local) are
encrypted. That part works fine.
I tidied up /etc/fstab (which looked like a dog's breakfast) last night,
but it still looks OK to me. I didn't change the options, just tried to
line up the columns a bit.
Is mount sensitive to mixed spaces and tabs in fstab?
Any suggestions?
Doug.
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