[plug] problem booting

[Cameron Patrick]

David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:

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

I'd run fsck and badblocks.  It doesn't need /proc to be mounted, but
you do want to make sure that your root fs isn't mounted read-write.
(It will be read-only right after booting up with init=/bin/sh; but if
you remounted it, you'll want to remount it again as read-only.)

So yes, running something like "badblocks -v /dev/discs/disc0/disc" is
probably a good start, as is "e2fsck -f -v /dev/FOO" (where FOO is the
appropriate partition - cat /proc/mounts if you aren't sure; if you
aren't using ext2/ext3 you'll need a different fsck command).

Cameron.