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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Jezak <josejx@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 09/25/10 16:40, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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<SNIP> |
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> Okay, let's try a few things now that we can boot the machine (even if |
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> it's not all the way!). |
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> First, lets mount proc: |
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> # mount -t procfs none /proc |
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OK - to me this doesn't look good: |
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# mount -t procfs none /proc |
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mount:none has wrong device number or fs type procfs not supported |
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on the off chance you menat proc instead of procfs I tried it that way |
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and got a slightly more reasonable message: |
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# mount -t proc none /proc |
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can't create lock file /etc/mtab~1038: Read-only file system (use -n |
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flag to override) |
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> Now, try fsck.ext3 again. Does it work? |
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Worked fine. fsck.ext3 said it was clean |
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> Next, let's remount the root file system read/write so we can modify files: |
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> # mount -o remount,rw / |
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Seemed to work. Got this message: |
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EXT3-fs: (hda4):using internal journal |
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> We'll copy the current mount information from proc to /etc/mtab and see |
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> if that helps: |
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> # cp /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab |
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> # mount -o remount,ro / |
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> Now, try fsck.ext3 again. Does it work? |
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> If so, try rebooting the system again. Does it boot now? |
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Didn't boot but got a little farther. Doesn't complain about mtab |
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anymore but still complains: |
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* Checking root filesystem... |
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fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda4 |
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/dev/hda4: |
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The superblock could not be read...... |
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<SNIP> |
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>> The boot still fails at the same point with the same message. Possibly |
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>> some other ATA driver is being selected ahead of this one and maybe it |
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>> needs to be removed from the kernel? I don't know what to remove |
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>> though so I'm sort of stuck on that account. |
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> The old PMAC_IDE driver is getting picked before the PATA_MACIO driver. |
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> If you'd like to try the newer driver, you'll need to disable the old |
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> one first. |
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OK - I'll go back in and look at my kernel config again. Thought I'd |
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post these results for now. |
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Please remember, I'm extremely thankful for all your help and the help |
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of others on this frustrating little problem. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |