So, I downloaded FreeBSD and installed it. It's nice to have a working system -- with a desktop environment and everything -- in a couple hours, albeit with pre-compiled binaries... I installed the ports system, but wanted to get things going quickly for now. (Heh, would have been even faster but I kept screwing stuff up... there's no "back" in the ncurses installer. That's one nice thing about just editing config files... then again, they could put in a "back" button.)
So, I'm off on my BSD adventure.
Ben
Kirktis wrote:
Easiest (reasonable, imo) way I can think of would be boot from livecd, cp -a what you can get, chroot, emerge -e system, world. Long, but should basically rebuild and relink your copy.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:55:51 -0800, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah-Hah... just ran Maxtor's Powermax drive test utility on the Maxtor drive and it failed the SMART test. Not too surprising, since I've fixed a bad block on this drive before... and it was a replacement for a Maxtor drive that failed. Grrr... Why didn't I move everything off the drive and toss it when I had that bad block? Why did I put /usr on the Maxtor? Oh well, live and learn.
Heh, anyone have any ideas how to get a gentoo system without /usr back to health? Maybe I can resize the partitions on the other drive, put /usr on it, and... hmmm, there's no way to put portage on there without doing a whole tarball, huh?
Ben
Ben Munat wrote:
Thanks for the idea, but that's the first thing I checked. The fstab is exactly as it was... and besides, other stuff is mounted just fine. Actually, the only thing that doesn't get mounted is /usr. That's definitely in fstab, so I assume there's either a disk problem or something got screwed up in the lvm stuff. Still fairly mystified, however... any ideas welcome!
Ben
M�rten Persson wrote:
Hi Ben, just a thought check your "/etcfstab" you may have the problem there. On several occasions I have had that file 'updated' by portage.
Marten
On Sunday 20 February 2005 00.09, Ben Munat wrote:
Hello. This morning I decided to finally clean up all the kernel sources gentoo's been putting in my /usr/src dir on my home machine and upgrade to the latest of them. Did make oldconfig and moved the kernel to boot. Then I rebooted and the boot process fails when it gets to "mounting local filesystems".
So, I figure I messes something up in my kernel config. But when I rebooted and used the old kernel, I get the same problem!! So, I figure something has gotten corrupted or misconfigured since my last reboot (two or three months ago??).
I have logical volumes spread over two drives and everything uses reiserfs. Right before the "mounting local filesystems", reiser goes through all of its checks and everything seems fine. But then it sits on "mounting local filesystems" for a while and then starts spitting errors because it can't mount /dev/vg/usr, with the usual mount error... something like "wrong fstype, bad option, etc.". I can eventually get to a minimal console, but with everything under /usr missing, it's not very useful.
Hmm, actually I just went through the boot again and the reiser checks never check /dev/vg/usr. Seems like it's not even seeing that volume. However, both of my drives show up in my BIOS just fine. And actually, I'm sure that something more than /usr should be on the same drive as /usr, so it doesn't seem like a drive issue. But maybe a bad block on the disk is preventing lvm from seeing /dev/vg/usr??
Any ideas why lvm wouldn't be able to mount some of my volumes? I haven't made any changes to my filesystems recently. My fstab is the same as it has always been.
Thanks,
Ben
PS: oh, I did upgrade grub from .93 to .94 this morning... don't see how that would affect anything, but thought I should mention it.
