From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA697361 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id CAA26157 for linux-list; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:14:30 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA24183 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:14:20 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id CAA08353 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:14:17 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) Received: from zaphod (zaphod.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.13]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA19820; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:12:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: by zaphod (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id LAA18917; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:12:37 +0200 Message-ID: <19980518111237.27765@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:12:37 +0200 From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de To: Leon Verrall Cc: Michael Hill , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Evidence of Drive Activity to Report References: <13661.60018.777703.724185@mdhill.interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Leon Verrall on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 09:35:06AM +0100 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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