Boot lockup

[Dan Hunter]

Absolutely excellent!
She lives!
I tried the rescue once and it could not or would not mount old drive under 
/mnt/sysimage.
I don't know why, but I was stuck with a read-only file system.

Whatever, it worked now.
Thank you!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Boot lockup


> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:16 -0500, Dan Hunter wrote:
>> I have a PC with Fedora Core 5 on it.
>> I boot from disk 1 ( hda )
>> hda1 = /boot
>> hda2 = /
>> hda3 = swap
>>
>> I have two additional drives
>> hdc1 = /mnt/raid
>> hdc2 = /mnt/raid2
>>
>> hard drive number 3 crashed.
>> When the drive crashed, the system rebooted.
>> Or we lost power, crashing the system, and the drive failed.
>> Either way, I have a dead drive and a system that refuses to boot
>> without that drive.
>>
>> I have a replacement drive, ready to installed.
>> But I can't get the machine to boot up.
>> It gives an error when trying to mount /mnt/raid2
>> I get the option of making changes, but / is a read-only file system.
>> I can't change fstab.
>>
>> I tried putting a loading FC5 on a new disk and then mounting the old
>> boot disk.
>> But every time the PC boots, it winds up with the same mount error.
>> I specified booting from Primary master, Primary slave, Secondary
>> master, Secondary slave, normal, and drive C:.
>> It starts out on the new boot drive and then, some how, winds up on
>> the old boot drive and errors out.
>>
>> I tried hitting the "I" during the boot process.
>>
>> I don't know what to do next.
>
> The most correct thing is to boot in rescue mode off either CD #1, the
> rescue CD or the DVD.  At the "boot:" prompt, enter "rescue" and press
> ENTER.  When the system asks if you want the system disk mounted, select
> "Yes".
>
> When the "#" prompt comes back, the root filesystem of the crashed
> system will be mounted at /mnt/sysimage.  Edit "/mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab"
> and comment out the lines referring to "/mnt/raid" and "/mnt/raid2" and
> save the file.  At the command prompt, enter "exit" and the system will
> pop out the CD/DVD and reboot.  The original system should come up
> WITHOUT trying to mount the crashed disk.
>
> This is precisely the type of thing that rescue mode is meant to do.
>
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