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<DIV><FONT size=2>Have spent a day or so attempting to fix a failed server by
googling around, which as always is most informative, but with no
success !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I think the initial issue was a power outage, causing the
machine to shutdown in an unorderly manner. </FONT><FONT size=2>The installation
was originally a RH9 installation, but my initial approach was to install FC6
using the upgrade method thinking the issue to be with some corrupt files,
however the same boot issue remains. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>the first indication of boot issues from the console are as
follows; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><EM>trying to resume from /dev/hda3 </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>no suspend signature on swap </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>creating root device </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>mounting root filesystem </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>..</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>setting up new root filesystem</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>switching to new root and running init </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>unmounting old /dev</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>unmounting old /proc</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>unmounting old
/sys</FONT></EM></DIV></DIV></FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>other subsequent boot issues then include; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>mount -n -t usbfs
/proc/bus/usb - segmentation
fault</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>..</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>chmod: changing permissions of /var/log/wtmp'; read-only
file system </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>etc </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>It seems from my limited experience in this area, the issue to
be around the mounting of the root filesystem, or perhaps the issue is with 'no
suspend signature' . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>/etc/fstab as i learn is a key file. What i think to be
the salient lines in it are; </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><EM>/dev/hda2
/
ext3 defaults 1
1</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><EM>LABEL=/boot /boot
ext3 defaults
1 1 </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><EM>/dev/hda3
swap swap </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>note that the first line was originally
<EM>label=/ </EM>but i changed this on reading potential issues
with labels (even though e2label reports corrected labels). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Similarly the boot command in grub.conf was changed so as to
read; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><EM>kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/hda2
</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT size=2>initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Apologies for the essay ! assistances in this will be most
gladly received </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>G</FONT></DIV>
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