Cannot boot-up after update

zba78 · 2005-10-02 12:53:27

Did the pacman -Syu last night an got the 400MB+ updates after things were moved from testing.

As instructed (because of kernel 2.6.13 and udev stuff) I changed my GRUB's menu.lst command to root=/dev/hdb6 ro and my fstab accordingly.

Now when I boot up it gets to the checking fiesystem changes and gives me an error message like:

"***************** FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED ****************
* *
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will *
* reboot automatically. *
* *
************************************************************"

Above this message ar some messages like

cannot find '/dev/hdb6' no such file or directory

and something about an error at line 78 in /etc/rc.d/functions

Any help please? I've not changed my /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.sysysinit or /etc/rc.d/functions files

IceRAM · 2005-10-02 13:02:21

Hmm... maybe you have a SATA disk which would be called /dev/sdb6?

(just a thought, not sure if it helps though)

zba78 · 2005-10-02 13:52:01

Nope, standard IDE disks. On slackware they boot fine as hdbx

zba78 · 2005-10-02 14:45:11

The issue is now fixed.

For info, looking closer into the problem (from my slackware installation) I noticed that the /dev directory only had a console and a zero node, but not a 'null' node. So I did

mknod -m 660 null c 1 3

in the dev directory, rebooted and all is fine.

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-02 15:31:07

Weird... udev installation is supposed to create all three nodes, and has in my experience.

T-Dawg · 2005-10-02 16:00:59

zba78 wrote:

The issue is now fixed.
For info, looking closer into the problem (from my slackware installation) I noticed that the /dev directory only had a console and a zero node, but not a 'null' node. So I did
mknod -m 660 null c 1 3
in the dev directory, rebooted and all is fine.

Curious, where you using devfs before the update?

zba78 · 2005-10-03 06:43:16

Strange indeed. I was using default devFS before the upgrade

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#1 2005-10-02 12:53:27

Cannot boot-up after update

#2 2005-10-02 13:02:21

Re: Cannot boot-up after update

#3 2005-10-02 13:52:01

Re: Cannot boot-up after update

#4 2005-10-02 14:45:11

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#5 2005-10-02 15:31:07

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#6 2005-10-02 16:00:59

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#7 2005-10-03 06:43:16

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