[lug] Boot errors

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 13:19, Terry Branaman wrote:
> I don't even get to a running system; this error occurs early in the
> boot process.

sounds like time to bust out a rescue floppy or some other boot media
and boot from that and do some poking around.

What are you left with if you let the system run its course?  e.g.
redhat will leave you at a password prompt for a root shell if it fails
fsck

Hugh


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
> On Behalf Of Hugh Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: LUG
> Subject: Re: [lug] Boot errors
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:24, Terry Branaman wrote:
> > I am having major problems with my Linux installation; so bad that I 
> > have had to go back to M$ Windows just to be able to send an email!
> > 
> > During the boot sequence I get the following message:
> >     Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: mount: / not 
> > mounted already, or bad option Then, since my root partition is 
> > read-only, nothing else works from that point on.
> > 
> 
> try 
> 
> mount -o remount,rw /
> 
> 
> Hugh
> 
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