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

zba78
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From: England
Registered: 2005-07-28
Posts: 29

Cannot boot-up after update

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


ARCH 0.7 (2.6.13) & Open SuSE 10.0 :: AMD XP2100+ :: 512 DDR-333 Ram :: 128MB Geforce 6600 (Nvidia 7664) :: 80GB HDD :: SBLive Value

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

IceRAM
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From: Bucharest, Romania
Registered: 2004-03-04
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Re: Cannot boot-up after update

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

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

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

zba78
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From: England
Registered: 2005-07-28
Posts: 29

Re: Cannot boot-up after update

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


ARCH 0.7 (2.6.13) & Open SuSE 10.0 :: AMD XP2100+ :: 512 DDR-333 Ram :: 128MB Geforce 6600 (Nvidia 7664) :: 80GB HDD :: SBLive Value

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

zba78
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From: England
Registered: 2005-07-28
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Re: Cannot boot-up after update

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.


ARCH 0.7 (2.6.13) & Open SuSE 10.0 :: AMD XP2100+ :: 512 DDR-333 Ram :: 128MB Geforce 6600 (Nvidia 7664) :: 80GB HDD :: SBLive Value

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

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
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Re: Cannot boot-up after update

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

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

T-Dawg
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From: Charlotte, NC
Registered: 2005-01-29
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Re: Cannot boot-up after update

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?

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

zba78
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From: England
Registered: 2005-07-28
Posts: 29

Re: Cannot boot-up after update

Strange indeed. I was using default devFS before the upgrade


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