Help! /dev/null: Read-only file system

[Andy Green]

bsnottum at hkskole.no wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> I am running more than 10 fc2 servers, and now 2 of them have come up with
> the same error-message when booting:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 195: /dev/null: Read-only file system
> 
> Ar first the servers seemed to be running without a problem, but when I
> restarted them the message above was displayed, and the booting prosess
> stops.
> 
> This is obviously very serious!! Can anyone help me on this??!

Looks like there is filesystem corruption, harmless or bad, and you need
to run fsck on that filesystem.

IIRC you will need to boot into recovery mode from your install CD1 and
fsck it from in there.  Type

linux rescue

at the prompt that comes up after CD1 boots.

-Andy
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