On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 21:53 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Arthur Dent > <misc.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 06/18/2012 12:32 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> > Can anyone guide me through troubleshooting and hopfully fixing this > >> > without hosing my system? > >> > >> Two questions: first, can you boot into an earlier kernel? Second, if > >> you can't, do you have access to a LiveCD? (Doesn't even have to be > >> Fedora; just something that can get you to a working system.) > > > > Well this is weird! > > > > I was thinking along the same lines. I found a F14 liveCD and that > > booted just fine. Had a little poke around the disks using the disk > > utility (which reported both hard drives as healthy) and then decided to > > try the original F16 installation disk (not a liveCD) as a rescue disk. > > Rescue mode failed with a "Fatal error" (Sorry I didn't write it down) > > but I just saw a strange error about mounting one of the other > > partitions on the disk (I have this partition mounted from fstab). So I > > went back to the liveCD, and edited the fstab, commenting out the > > relevant entry and... > > The system boots fine! > > (Here's the weird bit) I then uncommented the same line (so it once > > again tries to mount the partition) and... > > It still works fine! > > > > So what gives? > > In F3 or so to F15, I have some partitions that, if they boot a little > slower than others, block the boot process. > > Sometimes, specifying those partitions noauto in /etc/fstab helps, > sometimes it blocks anyway. > > Once it boots, I can generally mount the problem child partitions by hand. > > > Answering your first question - no I could not boot into an earlier > > kernel. The grub failure seemed to be before that choice even came up - > > so why would grub be worried about a partition mounted from fstab which > > is surely much later in the boot process? > > > > Why do I have a working system again simply by changing fstab and then > > changing it back again? > > > > I have a working system and that's the main thing - but if anyone can > > shed any light as to what went wrong I would be very grateful. > > > > Joe, thanks for your help. > > > > Thanks again to all. > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > users mailing list > > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > > > > > -- > -- > Joel Rees fwiw this could possible be an indication of an impending power supply failure. I have had this issue in the past and a new power supply has cleared the problem up. Don -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
