On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:50:58AM -0700, James McManus wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Steve Searle <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Steve Searle <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 9 > > To: jmpmcmanus@xxxxxxxxx, "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:41 PM > > Around 05:24pm on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (UK time), > > James McManus scrawled: > > > > > issues, related to the upgrade. However, today I did > > an additional > > > upgrade of 7 packages including the kernal. When I > > rebooted my system, > > > it got to grub and then began beeping, and stalled out > > there. I have > > > attempting to use the rescue OS, but need to find more > > information on > > > this problem. I suspect it has something to do with > > the new kernal. Is > > > anybody familiar with this problem? > > > > No. But what happens if you select the previous kernel in > > the grub > > menu? > > > > Steve > > > > -- > > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally > > read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? > > > > 17:39:54 up 5 days, 3:42, 2 users, load average: 0.00, > > 0.28, 0.84 > > Steve, > > I do not get the grub menu. It stalls out just before. Because of this, I'm now thinking there may be a problem with my boot partition. I rebooted using the rescue disk, and did a df -k to get information on my filesystems. A shorthand version of the output was: > > Filesystem Mounted on > /dev /dev > /dev/loop0 /mnt/runtime > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-logVol00 /mnt/sysimage > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot > /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev > > from this /dev/sda1 appears to be my boot filesystem. > > I'm thinking, performing a fsck on the boot partition, may help > me find out what the problem is. However, when I run the following > command: > > fsck -n /dev/sda1 > > I get these warnings: > > WARNING! /dev/sda1 is mounted > WARNING: couldn't open /etc/fstab > > What is the correct way to check my boot partition and > possibly correct it? > > Thanks > Jim > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Dear Jim, maybe you shoud mount all the old partitions and chroot into them to get this working (so fdisk finds the right fstab) Hope this helps. Regards, Patrick -- Patrick Kaiser URL: http://argonius.de EMail: patrick.kaiser@xxxxxxxxxxx RIPE: PK3264-RIPE -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
