mounting root filesystem issue ?

[Graham Turner]

Andy, thanks for mail back

i think i had but anyways re-run of "fsck -f /dev/hda2" gives no error 
indication as completes checks

duly noted on labels etc and  i will change back

any other views ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Green" <andy at warmcat.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: mounting root filesystem issue ?


> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>> I think the initial issue was a power outage, causing the machine to
>> shutdown in an unorderly manner. The installation was originally a RH9
>
>> /chmod: changing permissions of /var/log/wtmp'; read-only file system /
>> /etc /
>
> You don't mention if you did a forced fsck on /dev/hda2, seeing stuff
> like your FS is readonly can mean that your filesystem is in dire need
> of a good combing.
>
> If you boot off the install DVD or CD1, and choose
>
> linux rescue
>
> you will be able to do
>
> fsck -f /dev/sda2
>
>> note that the first line was originally /label=/   /but i changed this
>> on reading potential issues with labels (even though e2label reports
>> corrected labels).
>>
>> Similarly the boot command in grub.conf was changed so as to read;
>>
>> /kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/hda2 /
>> /initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img /
>
> Labels will save you some hassle when you upgrade your kernel... recent
> kernels changed accessing IDE stuff to go through the SCSI layer,
> meaning that IDE HDD device names change from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx.
> Labels allow the right partition to be found despite this, whereas with
> your current setup naming the device using the old names, it won't
> succeed to boot.
>
> -Andy
>
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