Hello all,

I need help before I pull out any more hair.

I have installed RH 9.0. Eveything installed correctly.

However, when I boot up the boot up freezes on

mounting other filesystesm:

Can any one tell me what is the problem?

What does the boot up want?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rainmann

"Can any one tell me what is the problem?"

Could you post your /etc/fstab? /etc/fstab contains a list of the file systems that your system will mount when it boots.

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I am sorry I cannot post the /etc/fstab, becuase the system does get to login. So I cannot login.

However, I can tell you that I have four partitions, (1 windows XP, 2. LINUX, 3. Windows recovery, 4. some storage for windows). I am wondering if linux is trying to mount one of the other three.


What does the message "mounting other filesystems" mean? What other filesystems are there. I would assume that all file systems would be mounted.

Thanks

"What does the message "mounting other filesystems" mean? What other filesystems are there. I would assume that all file systems would be mounted."

Linux is trying to mount the file systems listed in /etc/fstab. So you need to look at /etc/fstab to see what it is trying to mount and to see if there is an error in /etc/fstab which causes mount to hang.

Do you have a rescue CD that you could boot? If so then boot the rescue cd, mount your / partition, and list off /etc/fstab. Something similar to:

mkdir /snowman
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /snowman
less /snowman/etc/fstab

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I don't have cd connected to my PC tablet. I installed linux via Netboot. However, I do have my linux boot disk that I had created. It still hangs up, using the boot disk.


Thanks

"I don't have cd connected to my PC tablet. I installed linux via Netboot. However, I do have my linux boot disk that I had created. It still hangs up, using the boot disk."

You could try using a rescue floppy instead of a rescue CD to list off /etc/fstab. I recommend tomsrtbt:

http://www.toms.net/rb/


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One step closer. Now I have used grub "e" to edit the kernel parameters and
added the init=/bin/bash to the kernel line. I can get into /etc/fstab.


Here is the /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0



I compared this with a machine that has RH 9.0 running and it looks normal.


Is there something else I can try.


Thanks

OK somehow the init=/bin/bash gave options to repair files systems.

Now I get

Mounting other filesystems [OK]

Now the system is stuck at

Starting up APM daemon :

What does the system want now?

Please help.

Thanks

Oh I did get a copy of the linux rescue disk recommended by jailbail. However, it
failed to boot the system. Only thing that displayed was

LIO
L

More bad news. I rebooted the system and It is back to hanging up

on
Mounting other filesystems:

Thanks

I think that you may have a hardware problem of some sort. But I do not know what the problem might be. Take a look through your BIOS and look for misconfigured hardware. Is the BIOS disk geometry correct? Have you made any hardware changes recently? Are your disk cables and master/slave jumpers set correctly?

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