root filesystem could not be mounted as r/w :(

gnychis · Last edited by gnychis on Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:33 am; edited 2 times in total

Hey guys,

I am getting the error that is in my topic, and I have no clue why. I wish it would tell my why my root filesystem could not be mounted, maybe even give me a little hint.

Can anyone give me some guidance as to figuring out why it can't be mounted?

It drops me to a read-only filesystem, then i do "mount -o remount rw /" and it remounts it as rw

however, "mount" shows / as being of type "rootfs"

my root is /dev/sda6 and is of type ext3, i have this specified in the /etc/fstab and ext3 support is built into my kernel.

Thanks!
George
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gnychis · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:45 am Post subject:

one more thing... during boot right before it gets into the run level stuff, it says:

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

Have you tried in unmounted state to check the filesystem, especially to rebuild the journal (as ext3 is just ext2 with a journal IIRC)?
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gnychis · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:02 am Post subject:

*sigh* i had accidently formatted it ext2 when i wanted it ext3... i booted a live cd and mouted it and it came up ext2
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gnychis · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:35 am Post subject:

ok maybe i didn't do it wrong in the first place

i did: