Booting problem with latest rawhide

[Jim Bevier]

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From: "Andrew Farris" <lordmorgul at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: Booting problem with latest rawhide


> Jim Bevier wrote:
>> It is hard for me to believe no one else is having this problem.  Lots
>> of updates and new kernels have been installed and still the problem
>> exists. Is there some service that is not being executed at startup?
>> Did I forget to remove or add a service when updating from F8 to
>> Rawhide?  I sure would like to help find this problem if someone could
>> point me in the right direction.  I guess the first thing to figure out
>> is why root is not mounted r/w on bootup.
>
> Have you tried booting from the cd and fsck the root partition?  During 
> the boot
> process the root partition will get mounted readonly, then unmounted and
> remounted r/w.  It may be its failing to do that for a specific reason due 
> to
> the filesystem.

All of the file systems get checked and are clean.  I can also boot f8 from 
another partition and read/write the rawhide partition fine.  After the file 
system check, there is a message "Remounting root filesystem in read-write 
mode:" and that is followed by "mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda8 is 
already mounted on /".  So should mtab be empty on boot?  It seems that the 
mtab entry is stopping the root filesystem from being mounted rw.  Does 
someone have any insight into how this works?

> BTW, its not an external western digital usb2/firewire drive by chance?

The drive is a 200 GB Maxtor PATA drive.

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