[rhn-users] Enter 4 boot problem

LONNIE TROTTER ltrotter at ajusd.org
Mon Jun 20 20:59:12 UTC 2005


Tried your suggestions. Neither rendered any help. Hmm not sure what to try
next. Thanks you for your reply. I guess I will keep looking around. 



 matchOn Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:10:18 -0600, Alfred Hovdestad wrote
> What have you tried so far?
> 
> There are a couple of things that you can try:
> 
> 1.  Re-install the boot loader.
>     grub-install /dev/sda
> 
> 2. Compare your file labels with /etc/fstab
>     Boot up with the rescue disk (linux rescue)
>     cat /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab
>     LABEL=/              /                 ext3    defaults        1 1
> 
>     e2label /dev/sda1
>     /
> 
> If the labels don't match, then the kernel cannot mount the / partition. 
>  From your description, I don't think that this is the problem, but is 
> one area to check.
> 
>     Alfred Hovdestad
> 
> LONNIE TROTTER wrote:
> > I'm sorry. It was a complete new install, just left the last 3 hd's in raid
> > and rebuilt the first raid for os. We have been doing it this way for a while
> > without problems, I upgraded the bios on a diff server and it cleared the
> > prob. But didn't help with these servers. Any more ideas? Thanks for the
reply. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:58:34 -0600, Alfred Hovdestad wrote
> > 
> >>It may not be grub.  Since you did an update, not a new install, you may 
> >>have to rebuild the initrd image (mkinitrd).
> >>
> >>    Alfred Hovdestad
> 
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Lonnie Trotter
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