[plug] problem booting

[David & Lisa Buddrige]

ok /proc is mounted... do you know where to look to diagnose what might be
the problem?

thanks heaps

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Perth Linux User Group <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 29 January 2004 8:49
Subject: Re: [plug] problem booting


>On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 20:12, David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:
>> I managed to boot into a simple shell by using the "linux init=/bin/bash"
>> option at the lilo prompt.  I then attempted to find out what was going
on
>> in /etc.... here is a transcript of my attempt:
>
>OK, as Cameron suggested before, you should make sure to start devfsd
>and mount /proc before continuing.
>
># /sbin/devfsd
># mount -t proc proc /proc
>
>> So I think to myself... ugh... not good.... where's my devices gone?   Is
>> this a Mandrake thing?
>
>Sort of. devfsd hasn't started or isn't working properly - perhaps it
>couldn't read it's config file out of your maybe-broken /etc, or maybe
>you forgot to start it.
>
>>   In RH /dev/fd0 was always the floppy but there does
>> not seem to be such a thing in my /dev
>
>I think it's probably there, just named differently. Try looking around
>under /dev/disks and /dev/misc .
>
>> has anyone seen this sort of thing before?
>
>Yup; a failing hard disk caused corruption to critical parts of the
>filesystem. The corruption wasn't detected until it was so bad that I
>was unable to recover significant parts of the filesystem. Backups are a
>very good thing.
>
>Craig Ringer
>
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