Re: [Sheflug] Boot Up Problems

[Darrell Blake <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 21:26, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 21:23, Darrell Blake wrote:
> > I've just finished building my LFS system and when I boot up into it I
> > get the following output...
> > 
> > <snip d'oh-age>
> >
> > I know that it looks like /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 doesn't exist 
> 
> Not only does it look like they don't exist; they don't exist :)

They do. /dev/hda6 is my swap partition. I use this for my current
distro so it has to be there. When I mount /dev/hda7 in my main distro I
get what's in it so it must exist.

> > But when I mount /dev/hda7 in my main linux system
> > and look in the /mnt/hda7/dev folder all the devices are there.

I don't know if I'm running devfs. What is it? I don't have /dev in my
fstab file no. I didn't think you had to. I'm not sure if I'm running
initfs either. What do devfs and initfs do?

> That don't mean squat :) Are you running devfs? I presume you don't have
> something odd like a /dev entry in fstab. Do you run an initfs?
> 
> > the partitions but I still get the fsck problem. In my /etc/fstab file I
> > mount / with a default of 1 1 so it shouldn't say that the filesystem is
> > mounted read-only.
> 
> All partitions are mounted read-only initially; setting them read-write
> in fstab means 'I would like to be able to write to this device when you
> mount it' - i.e., it mounts read-only, checks it out, and then makes it
> writeable when it's done.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
Thanks,

Darrell

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