From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
To: Leon Verrall <leon@reading.sgi.com>
Cc: Michael Hill <mdhill@interlog.com>, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Evidence of Drive Activity to Report
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:12:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980518111237.27765@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980518093146.5158B-100000@wintermute.reading.sgi.com>; from Leon Verrall on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 09:35:06AM +0100
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 09:35:06AM +0100, Leon Verrall wrote:
> Using root-be.0.03.cpio I had to hack some stuff around. /etc/fstab doesn't
> contain a listing for / so fsck fails in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I'd add this
> entry in but I also hard coded /dev/sdc2 (my root) into rc.sysinit as the
> mount command in this root-be doesn't seem to like mounting from fstab
> entries....
Ouch, that must be a very obsolete mount binary.
> Boot with vmlinux root=whatever init=/bin/sh
> mount -t ext -n -o remount,rw /dev/myrootdevice /
> vi /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/fstab
> logout.
>
> You may also want to 'touch /fastboot' . This will skip the fsck on boot.
> (probably a dangerous thing ATM :)
I consider the whole /fastboot thing obsolete. Only fsck knows
if a filesystem is broken or not. Oh well, the things we do for Minix ...
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-18 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-10 3:05 Evidence of Drive Activity to Report Michael Hill
1998-05-10 19:20 ` Michael Hill
1998-05-11 3:19 ` Eric Kimminau
1998-05-11 7:33 ` ralf
1998-05-16 19:43 ` Michael Hill
1998-05-18 8:35 ` Leon Verrall
1998-05-18 9:12 ` ralf [this message]
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