From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:18:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:18:44 -0400 Received: from ns.roland.net ([65.112.177.35]:30219 "EHLO earth.roland.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:17:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8EADF1.4030100@roland.net> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:19:45 -0500 From: Jim Roland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Venkatesh Ramachandran CC: linux-users@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, brussels-linux@cisco.com, Mathangi Kuppusamy Subject: Re: Linux Mounting problem In-Reply-To: <3B8E5791.5BBE92A2@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >