You need to include detail you've omitted. For example:
> When I start the machine today suddenly it prompted for password and
> going for single user mode only.
Surely there was an error message displayed before it "suddenly" went to
single-user mode. Did this happen during an e2fsck, for example? Did the
screen display ANYTHING informative at this point? (This is a really key
spot to watch for information when a boot/init procedure drops you into
single-user mode.)
> I am able to mount /second but
> /SECOND and /third if I try to mount the following errors are coming.
>
> mount: directory to mount not in host:dir format
This is the format for an NFS mount. Odd for a local mount attempt. Perhaps
if you told us the line you entered to try to mount the filesystem ...?
Might you be having a hardware problem? Does the kernel report detecting
both hda and hdc as well as the BIOS? What does the kernel say about
partitions on hdc? Can fdisk find the drive? If yes, what does it say about
the partitions?
At 08:29 PM 6/13/00 +0530, K Sambaiah wrote:
>
>Hi All,
> I am using RedHat Linux 5.2. I have 2 hard disks hda and hdc.
> /etc/fstab has the following entries:
>
>
>/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda5 /second ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>/dev/hdc1 /SECOND ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>/dev/hdc2 /third ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>
> When I start the machine today suddenly it prompted for password and
> going for single user mode only. I am able to mount /second but
> /SECOND and /third if I try to mount the following errors are coming.
>
> mount: directory to mount not in host:dir format
>
> If I try to run fsck on /dev/hdc1 or /dev/hdc2
>
> It is giving error saying
> fsck.ext2: Device not configured while trying to open /dev/hdc1
> possibly non-existent or swap device.
>
> Bios is recognizing the hdc.
>
> any advise to mount the second hard disk?
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