[lug] Boot errors

[Terry Branaman]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 11:33, ryan.wheaton at attbi.com wrote:
> have you tried to start linux in single user mode?
> 
> are you using grub or lilo as your boot manager??  you should be able to start 
> in single user mode which is usually only used for maintenence and such, and 
> then run the command that hugh suggested (or edit the fstab).  
> 
> if this doesn't work, then you probably need to use the rescue disk that you 
> created during the install (which will basically put you into single user mode).
> good luck!
> hth,
> rtw
> > 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
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________

Well, it appears that it was my fstab. I booted with a rescue disk and
looked at fstab; for / I had the options "acl,user_xattr"; I changed to
"default" and rebooted, now everything appears to be fine.

I had kept my fstab from old installations (in fact I saved my whole
/etc so that I could copy files as needed when trying new
configurations), and at one time I was playing around with ACLs with
Mandrake 8 or 9.0. I didn't think that either of those options would be
a problem when I upgraded, but obviously I was wrong.

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. I had tried
Google, but I guess I didn't formulate my search well enough to find the
information that I needed.