Fedora Core 9

[Patrick Kaiser]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:50:58AM -0700, James McManus wrote:
> --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com>
> > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 9
> > To: jmpmcmanus at yahoo.com, "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:41 PM
> > Around 05:24pm on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (UK time),
> > James McManus scrawled:
> > 
> > > issues, related to the upgrade.  However, today I did
> > an additional
> > > upgrade of 7 packages including the kernal. When I
> > rebooted my system,
> > > it got to grub and then began beeping, and stalled out
> > there.  I have
> > > attempting to use the rescue OS, but need to find more
> > information on
> > > this problem. I suspect it has something to do with
> > the new kernal. Is
> > > anybody familiar with this problem?  
> > 
> > No.  But what happens if you select the previous kernel in
> > the grub
> > menu?
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally
> > read text.
> > Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?
> > 
> >  17:39:54 up 5 days,  3:42,  2 users,  load average: 0.00,
> > 0.28, 0.84
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I do not get the grub menu. It stalls out just before. Because of this, I'm now thinking there may be a problem with my boot partition.  I rebooted using the rescue disk, and did a df -k to get information on my filesystems. A shorthand version of the output was:
> 
> Filesystem                          Mounted on
> /dev                                /dev
> /dev/loop0                          /mnt/runtime
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-logVol00     /mnt/sysimage
> /dev/sda1                           /mnt/sysimage/boot
> /dev                                /mnt/sysimage/dev
> 
> from this /dev/sda1 appears to be my boot filesystem. 
> 
> I'm thinking, performing a fsck on the boot partition, may help
> me find out what the problem is. However, when I run the following
> command:
> 
> fsck -n /dev/sda1
> 
> I get these warnings:
> 
> WARNING! /dev/sda1 is mounted
> WARNING: couldn't open /etc/fstab
> 
> What is the correct way to check my boot partition and 
> possibly correct it?
> 
> Thanks
> Jim
> 
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Dear Jim,

maybe you shoud mount all the old partitions and chroot into them to get
this working (so fdisk finds the right fstab)

Hope this helps.

Regards, Patrick

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