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zepto
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 Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: [Solved]Boot problem(s) - lock file and open device failures |
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Just 're-installed' gentoo as I wanted to radically alter my partition makeup.
During system initialisation (INIT: version 2.84 booting) I get the following two errors:
"1st - Mounting sysfs at /sys...
can't create lock file /etc/mtab~675: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
2nd - Checking root filesystem...
Failed to open the device '/dev/hda3/: No such file or directory
/sbin/rc: line 250: rc_splash: command not found
* Filesystem couldn't be fixed  "
Not even sure where to begin troubleshooting so any assistance appreciated, but have checked obvious stuff such as fstab & grub typos and am pretty sure they are okay.
This might also be related to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=277016, but I'm not sure.
Thanks
Fractoon
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knefas
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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can you post your fstab and be sure you don't have any trailer / after /dev/hda3?
are you sure you have a /dev/hda3 device, I mean, can you mount it?
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zepto
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | can you post your fstab and be sure you don't have any trailer / after /dev/hda3?
are you sure you have a /dev/hda3 device, I mean, can you mount it? |
Have just mounted all the partitions to check the fstab and they operate as expected. There is no trailing / after /dev/hda3 in fstab file, but I don't know how to post fstab from 'broken' machine.
fstab file (re-typed!? *edit)
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,notail 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home reiserfs notail 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr reiserfs notail 0 0
/dev/hda7 /opt reiserfs notail 0 0
/dev/hda8 /var reiserfs notail 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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zepto
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Ideas anyone.
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zepto
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Okay,
I am not sure this is a solution as I 'rebuilt' the system again, but ...
I'm thinking these messages are related to me skipping (by accident  ) the following steps from the handbook whilst installing and configuring grub.
10. Configuring the bootloader
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| Code: | Code Listing 6: Updating /etc/mtab
# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab |
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| Code: | Code Listing 7: Running grub-install
# grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda |
Hopefully someone having this problem could confirm it, but this is definately something I didn't do whilst rebuilding and the first error mentions /etc/mtab so think it is a good 'guess'
HTH
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