Hey ReJ Can you boot in single user mode, and if so: what happens then? Use "single" at the boot prompt. That is: linux single plus any other parameters you would normally use. What version of Debian are you on now? What kernel version? Luke On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Rejean Proulx wrote: > Hello speakup, > > I had a problem with a spammer and to make a long story short, I > rebooted my server, for the last time it seems. It goes through all > its hardware configuration including identifying its disk drives. > It then gives me a message that it cannot mount selinux and gives me > the sign on prompt. I sign on and get a prompt of none. The HDA2 is > mounted read only and I cannot do an ls. I can mount other file > systems and do e2fsck, mkfs and all that. When I boot using orolux I > can mount HDA2 and it is not read only. Based on what I can find, it > seems to be caused by a Debian update, but I can't get any > information about it. I hope someone has had this happen and was > able to solve this one as it is a bit beyond me. Meanwhile, my > server is as good as dead. > >