Re: Linux Mounting problem

[Jim Roland <jroland@roland.net>]

It will enter maintenance mode if fsck was unable to fix errors as a 
previous boot-up.  Boot with your RH71 cd, enter "linux rescue" at the 
"boot:" prompt, and your system will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage.  It 
may delay for a little while while coming up if it's re-running fsck. 
 After you have a prompt (navigate throught the text dialog boxes 
first), run fsck and you can fix the partition or inode errors.

Regards,
Jim Roland, RHCE


Venkatesh Ramachandran wrote:

>Hello,
>   I am using Redhat Linux 7.1
>   During reboot, i get the message " Mounting / as readonly"
>   And, it enters into maintenance mode...( & all other steps fail -
>/proc not mounted, swap not mounted, fsck fails)
>   I did the following :
>   mount -t proc proc /proc
>   fsck /dev/hda1
>   The following error messages : ERROR : Couldn't open /dev/null
>(Read-only file system)
>
>   It goes into a never-ending loop, and never i am able to recover from
>this problem.
>
>   Has anyone come across such a problem? How to tackle it?
>   Do we need to use a bootdisk, to get into the read-write mode of root
>filesystem ?
>   How to change root filesystem from read-only to read-write?
>
>   This will be of very great help to me and my team.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Venkatesh.
>
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