Re: Can't boot - mounted filesystem?


Subject: Re: Can't boot - mounted filesystem?
From: Takashi Oe (toe@unlserve.unl.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 13:05:08 MDT


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:34:33 -0500, Gawain Reifsnyder wrote:

> Last night I installed YDL 2.0 on a beige G3/300. In addition to the
> Mac HFS partition I've got a 10MB bootloader partition (unused), a
> 128MB swap partition, and a 5GB root partition.
>
> After having trouble with the graphical installer (a blank screen) I
> successfully installed YDL 2.0 using the text installer.
>
> It ran fine and I booted into X with no problems. Then....
>
> After rebooting, I get a message that says:
>
> "/dev/hda9 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting."
>
> running fsck indicates that the filesystem is clean. After a restart
> the same thing happens and I'm unable to get past the boot process.
>
> What's going on? Thanks for any help!

Possibly, there are more than two entries for /dev/hda9 in your
/etc/fstab.

Try
$ mount -n -o remount,rw /
$ vi /etc/fstab
then remove an extra /dev/hda9 if present
$ mount -n -o remount,ro /
reboot.

Takashi Oe

>
> Gawain



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