mounting root filesystem issue ?

[Graham Turner]

point taken, about starting a clean installation and moving stuff across, 
but would be keen to try 4 a bit on restoring this installation

as i read it, the files on /dev/hda2 are intact as per our mounting it from 
the rescue mode ?

don't know if this is relevant but on a working system, /dev/hda2 is mounted 
as type 'ext3'

on the **'d system when i run the mount /dev/hda2 / it mounts as type 
'ext2' - only mention this as i found it from yesterday's googling


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Green" <andy at warmcat.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: mounting root filesystem issue ?


> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>> final state of boot is that it gets to the login prompt, where i can
>> enter a login name but then does not ask for a password !
>
> I guess this can be because your root filesystem is left mounted
> read-only...
>
>> on the way it stalls at 'starting system logger' which i would guess
>> times out and proceeds
>
> Hum
>
>> usbfs seg faults when 'starting /udev' - if that answers your qu. 
>> correctly
>>
>> init scripts as i understand run
>
> Right.
>
> Well if it was me, knowing that I pushed my luck pretty hard attempting
> a Redhat 9 --> FC6 upgrade, especially after the box was trashed
> beforehand, I would ask myself if it will be quicker overall to thresh
> around meddling trying to fix the problems, or to place a new HDD in the
> box, clean install FC6 or F7 on to it, and then add the original HDD
> back in and copy the important stuff on to the new drive, before
> removing the old HDD and keeping as an archive.  Probably the answer to
> that doesn't depend much on the complexity of what is on the old drive,
> since you radically updated all the daemons anyway you will probably
> have to go around fixing things up.
>
> If you want to meddle on, press A at the grub menu and add the letter S
> to the kernel commandline.  This might get you up in "single user mode"
> allowing you to look around.  If that succeded, you might try
>
> mount
>
> to see if your / really is mounted read-only, then
>
> mount /dev/hda2 / -oremount,rw
>
> and see if that does succeed to remount it rw.
>
> Also on the grub prompt, try adding
>
> selinux=0
>
> to see if that is causing troubles.
>
> -Andy
>
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