On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 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 ...?
Yes I made a mistake here.
mount -tnfs /xyz is wrong.
the type has to be ext2.
>
> 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?
Yes Bios recognized the 2'nd hard disk (hdc) but linux is not able to
mount. I am not able to run fdisk also.
Finally changing the bus cable did the trick.
I would like to know when we are running Linux (or for that matter any
OS) how do we find out the health of the hardware?
Is fsck check is the only way for hard disks or any other ways we can
find the hardware condition.
regards,
Sambaiah Kilaru.
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