Re: [TCLUG:4144] No boot - old kernel

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

Check and cee if you have an /etc/mtab file.  If not, mount your
filesystem from a rescue disk:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
touch /mnt/etc/mtab
This shouldn't matter on a non-redhat system, but I've noticed that
redhat's boot scripts go banannas if there's no /etc/mtab at boot time.

Peter Lukas

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Anisa Young wrote:

> --On Friday, February 12, 1999, 6:05 PM -0600 "Peter Lukas"
> <peter@math.umn.edu> wrote: 
> 
> > What's the specific error message at boot time?
> > 
> 
> Nothing, it just starts the boot process normally, and says "remounting root
> filesystem read-write" the hard drive makes noise for a second and then the
> computer hangs. I can't (or don't know of anything) do to. Anything I type
> is displayed on the screen, but I don't know how to get out of it from
> there. 
> 
> When I boot with the rescue disk chroot works fine, for whatever that is
> worth.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Ben
> lueyb@carleton.edu
> 
> > Peter Lukas
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 lueyb@carleton.edu wrote:
> > 
> >> I have lines to old kernels, but they won't boot either. In fact, I can't
> >> boot with a rh5.2 boot.img kernel when I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'  at
> >> lilo. There is something about my root partition that crashes linux on
> the
> >> remounting of root partition read-write regardless of the kernel.  
> >> 
> >> Any ideas?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks as usual
> >> 
> >> Ben
> >> lueyb@carleton.edu
> >> 
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