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My new installed laptop has the following partitions:
disc1 Boot Primary NTFS
disc2 Primary Linux ext2 #For boot
disc5 Logical Linux ReiserFS #For root
disc6 Logical Linux #For swap
And the menu.lst of grub for Linux is:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part5 ro
However, when booting, error messages are displayed and I cannot boot into Linux:
:: Mounting Root Read-only [FAIL]
:: Checking Filesystems [DONE]
:: Mounting Local Filesystems [BUSY]
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
mount: can't find / in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
can't create lock file /etc/mtab~274: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
can't create lock file /etc/mtab~275: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
....
:: Starting System Logger [BUSY]
And system will halt for while and finally shows login screen:
Arch Linux 0.6 (Widget) ((none)) (vc/1)
(none) login:
Should I not set the partition as Logical? Any suggestion?
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I've re-partitioned the hard disk using all primary partition and reinstalled. But there error remains the same.
btw, i found the fstab is very different than my successfully installed desktop. It has only three lines on my laptop:
/dev/rd/0 / ext2 defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
Can this /etc/fstab file cause the problem?
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Anyway, changed the fstab files to the following and still the same error occurs.
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
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If the following doesn't help, post your full new partion layout since you repartioned and I'll help out.
Anyway, changed the fstab files to the following and still the same error occurs.
# # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
did you updated your /boot/grub/menu.lst for your new repartition? If whats in your fstab is now all you have (you got rid of the boot partition), then update menu.lst
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinux26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 ro
btw, i found the fstab is very different than my successfully installed desktop. It has only three lines on my laptop:
Code:
/dev/rd/0 / ext2 defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0Can this /etc/fstab file cause the problem?
yes, if its not in fstab, it doesn't get mounted . This has also occured to me when I screwed around too much in the installer, that is partioned, then thought of something else, then repartioned, etc....
HTH
-wd
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My new partitions are:
disc1 Boot Primary NTFS
disc2 Primary Linux ext2 # Boot
disc3 Primary Linux ReiserFS #
disc4 Primary Linux # Swap
The error message remain the same after I modify the /etc/fstab as above (it stop even earlier if I didn't modify the fstab file).
Btw, I can run the following command successfully after boot using archlinux CD:
mount /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /mnt/
mount /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /mnt/boot/
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