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Index of Subjects Thank you for your reply, We got our problem solved what had happened was during an upgrade of some of our bin packages the mount and unmount commands were in different bins that we hadn't upgraded and when the reboot occurred we didn't have a mount command to mount the filesystem. Again thanks. Dan [Reply from Michael T. Smith: Original message is as follows] =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "Michael T. Smith" <michael@csuite.ns.ca> Sent: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:04:32 -0300 (ADT) To: tazman@renc.igs.net Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE (fwd) Hi Dan, Good thing it was Thanksgiving ;) If you don't know the root password, reboot and wait until you see the LILO: boot prompt. Hit [TAB] to get a list of boot images -- it's probably "linux". Enter linux init=3D/bin/bash Then when you get a bash# prompt, run mount -o remount,rw / to remount the file system read-write, change root's password with ``passwd root'', and run mount -o remount,ro / sync sync sync (now hit the reset button, this isn't too safe if the partitions wouldn't remount read-only again) OK, so you have root the root password now. The filesystems are being mounted read-only because there are errors (the machine wasn't properly shut down). Log in as root and make sure they're still mounted read-only (run ``mount''). Run fsck -A When all the errors are fixed you should probably reboot. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:46:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: Dan Neadow <tazman@renc.igs.net> > Reply-To: csuite-install@chebucto.ns.ca > To: csuite-install@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: HELP ME PLEASE > > Hi I'm Dan Neadow Technical officer with valleynet.on.ca > > WE are having major problems and our tech guru is gone for > the weekend and not sure of when he's returning. > > The problem is that the system did a reboot today and when it > came back up it mounted the root filesystem as read only. > Dialup access is unavailable telnet://valleynet.on.ca wroks but > can't use pine etc because the file system is read only. > > If anyone out here can help me please e-mail me at > tazman@renc.igs.net at your first convienence. > > or phone (613) 732-0106 > sincerely > distressed. > Dan > --- Michael Smith michael@csuite.ns.ca ---
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