Hello Floriola,
I think there was a little fault in building the new initrd.
The mount-command of the init-script is wrong and makes confusing, e.g.
: first the root-filesystem must mount read/write, it accepts.
Then it must mount read/only, but refuses, because it is already
mounted. (normally for remouting it should give the mount-command with
option "-o remount,ro" )
And finally fsck should start to check the filesystem, but refuses
because fsck cannot work with read/write mounted filesystems.
The result is this end of the boot-process :
/[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
*** Warning -- SELinux is active
*** Disabling security enforcement for system recovery.
*** Run 'setenforce 1' to reenable.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):/
When you give your root-passwd and type the next command:
# mount -t ext3 -o remount,rw /
# init 5
The system will continue to boot.
I think the best is to set everything right, e.g. :
- check the /etc/fstab (use option "defaults", other gives errors)
- /etc/grub.conf ( or lilo.conf )
- build a new initrd file with mkinitrd
( read carefully the boot-messages, mostly it gives good hints)
It should be work then.
If not, it is possible your MBR will not co-operate, and keeps his old
settings.
Try to break the MBR and rebuild.
I have done it once as final solution with the install-dvd.
Grretings and success,
Ronno
Floriola wrote:
Hi Nitin,
Thanks for your answer. My /etc/fstab contains the following line for the root filesystem:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 / ext3 rw 1 1
However, I changed it to
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 / ext3 defaults 1 1
and rebooted, but the same problem hapened.
It looks like in the early stage of the booting, when the kernel is using the initrd to load the
modules, the /etc/fstab does not matter.
I still do not understand why in my new initrd file, with the new kernel, the root filesystem is
nounted read-write, instead of read-only.
Regards,
Floriola
--- Nitin B <forumswatch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Boot your system in single user mode using new kernel and check /etc/fstab.
If it doesn't have default options edit it and add "defaults" . Oce this is
done reboot.
On 25/06/06, Floriola <floriola2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I have a RHES4 server running kernel version 2.6.9-34.EL. During this
night, I have updated to
latest kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL. The problem is that with the new kernel, my
linux is not booting
anymore. During the boot, I have the following error:
Checking root filesystem
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
*** Warning -- SELinux is active
*** Disabling security enforcement for system recovery.
*** Run 'setenforce 1' to reenable.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
Luckily, I still have the old kernel installed, so I booted with the old
one, without any
problems.
I dig a bit more, and I found the following:
In the old 2.6.9-34.EL kernel that I am able to boot with, the init script
in the initrd contains
the following mount command:
mount -o defaults --ro -t ext2 /dev/root /sysroot
while with the new kernel 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL that I have just installed, the
init file in the initrd
contanin the following command:
mount -o rw --ro -t ext2 /dev/root /sysroot
So this is why with the new kernel, my root filesystem si already mounted
read-write during the
boot process, before the fsck.
However, this looks quite weird. First, I cannot find anywhere what this
--ro means (there are no
info about this option in the man page). Most probably, it means that the
filesystem should be
mount read-only, but then why in the new kernel the mount command contains
also "-o rw" option?
And why in the previous kernel, the root filesystem was mounted with the
"-o defaults" option, and
the new one is mounted with the "-o rw" option?
Any ideeas?
Thank you in advance,
Floriola
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