Here is what happens when one I boot a RH9 IBM xseries box.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel mamory: 132k freed INIT: version 2.84 booting Settomg defai;t fpmt (latarcyrheb-sun16): [ ok ] Welcome to /etc/rc.d/rc.synsinit: line 70: 35 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C grep -q "Red Hat" /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Mounting proc filesystem: [failed] /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 90: 42 Segmantation fault LC_ALL=C grep -q .initrd /proc/mounts Confuguring kernel parameters: Error: /proc must ve mounted To mount /proc at boot you need an /etcfstab line like: /proc /proc proc defaults In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc [failed] Setting clock (localtime): Fi Jan 23 09:06:35 MST 2004 [ ok ] Loading default keymap (us): [ ok ] Setting hosname mgserver.net: [ ok ] /etc/rc,d/rc.sysinit: line 182: 65 Segmentation fault LC-ALL=C grep -iq"nousb" I know RH9 is old, but lets not debate on that for now. Checked all hardware, raid, disks, even replaced RAM. So not a hardware issue. Gives same error while booting to single user mode too. Able to boot to rescue mode. Examined fstab. Has proper proc line. Grub is set up fine too, Did nothing special to trigger the error. Was getting segfaults with grep, rebooted, got stuck. Consulted lots of experts, google, RH kbase. No go. Perhaps you mortals can save us a reinstall? Why on earth won't proc mount? Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
