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I'm running Fedora core 2 on a machine with a master and slave hard
drive. /dev/hdb1 my ide hard drive slave is dead and now when I boot I
get as far as "checking filesystems" and then get a failure:
fsck.ext3 "unable to resolve 'LABEL=/backupdisk'
/boot: clean ...
Then I'm asked to enter my root password dropping to a shell. How do I
fix this so the machine is ok with /dev/hda? I just want the machine to
ignore the old drive that's gone.
Thank you very much in advance.
- David Kistner
On Fri, 28 May 2004 00:42:51 +0000, David Kistner wrote:
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> I'm running Fedora core 2 on a machine with a master and slave hard
> drive.
> /dev/hdb1 my ide hard drive slave is dead and now when I boot I get as
> far as "checking filesystems" and then get a failure:
>
> fsck.ext3 "unable to resolve 'LABEL=/backupdisk' /boot: clean ...
>
> Then I'm asked to enter my root password dropping to a shell. How do I
> fix this so the machine is ok with /dev/hda? I just want the machine to
> ignore the old drive that's gone.[/color]
Boot with the first Installation CD when the boot menu is displayed type
'linux rescue' without the quotes and press the 'Enter' key. Answer a few
questions and watch/read the screens as they are displayed. When done
booting cd to where your root (/) partition is now mounted
(/mnt/sysimage/????) and edit /etc/fstab to remove the entry.
--
"In short, without this exclusive franchise, called the Windows API,
we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96
On Fri, 28 May 2004 12:08:54 GMT, Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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>On Fri, 28 May 2004 00:42:51 +0000, David Kistner wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I'm running Fedora core 2 on a machine with a master and slave hard
>> drive.
>> /dev/hdb1 my ide hard drive slave is dead and now when I boot I get as
>> far as "checking filesystems" and then get a failure:
>>
>> fsck.ext3 "unable to resolve 'LABEL=/backupdisk' /boot: clean ...
>>
>> Then I'm asked to enter my root password dropping to a shell. How do I
>> fix this so the machine is ok with /dev/hda? I just want the machine to
>> ignore the old drive that's gone.[/color]
>
>Boot with the first Installation CD when the boot menu is displayed type
>'linux rescue' without the quotes and press the 'Enter' key. Answer a few
>questions and watch/read the screens as they are displayed. When done
>booting cd to where your root (/) partition is now mounted
>(/mnt/sysimage/????) and edit /etc/fstab to remove the entry.[/color]
Why not just interrupt grub and append a '1' to the end of the boot
line to boot to single user mode?
-Chris
David Kistner <spamcatcher1@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<fWvtc.18469$o97.3919@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>...[color=blue]
> I'm running Fedora core 2 on a machine with a master and slave hard
> drive. /dev/hdb1 my ide hard drive slave is dead and now when I boot I
> get as far as "checking filesystems" and then get a failure:
>
> fsck.ext3 "unable to resolve 'LABEL=/backupdisk'
> /boot: clean ...
>
> Then I'm asked to enter my root password dropping to a shell. How do I
> fix this so the machine is ok with /dev/hda? I just want the machine to
> ignore the old drive that's gone.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> - David Kistner[/color]
When your in the shell all you have to do is modify the /etc/fstab
file removing the entries of filesystems that are trying to mount to
your slave drive. Keep Smiling !
Chris May
Sr. Systems Administrator
Infinicon Systems
The command you need to remount the readonly filesystem as writable:
mount -o remount,rw /