System only boots to read-only

[mark]

On 10/16/13 12:36, Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> This is a RedHat server 6.4
>
> When I tried to reboot the system, it comes up as readonly.  See the
> attached file with more details.
>
> I tried to use the installation disk to recover the system, but again the
> chroot command is not available and /mnt/sysimage comes up readonly.
>
> Is there a simple way to fix the problem?  Luckly all the data in /home,
> /tycho-1 and /raid seem to be ok.
>

Hi, Margaret,

    First, the chroot command is always available in the rescue mode; if 
it's not, then something's wrong with your media.

    Second, if it's coming up in readonly, then this *very* strongly 
suggests you've got a drive error, and that would be on the root filesystem. 
Boot off of rescue, and fsck -c (check for bad blocks) -y (yes to all fixes) 
on /boot and / partitions.

    Then build a new /boot and /.

	mark


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