On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
>Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
>that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
>system in read/write mode.
>
> I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
>way
Marcia,
If you want to re-install just do so as if you were installing for the
first time. If you've defined the partitions, such as '/' (root), /home,
/boot, and so forth you can format all the partitions except your home
dir and that will leave all your data files in tact while installing the
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Title: RE: [newbie] error on boot-up
Try one last thing, at the prompt, type just linux or just failsafe and hit return. That about uses up my help knowledge on this subject J
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Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
system in read/write mode.
I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
way to get to a console or linuxconf.
I have read
Marcia Waller wrote:
>
> Dear Paul, I went to the Lilo boot prompt and typed "linux failsafe".I got
> back "no such image. [tab] shows a list. I then used the tab key and then I
> got : linux windows floppy. I do not know what this means or what to
> do now. By the way how do you exit th
Dear Paul, I went to the Lilo boot prompt and typed "linux failsafe".I got
back "no such image. [tab] shows a list. I then used the tab key and then I
got : linux windows floppy. I do not know what this means or what to
do now. By the way how do you exit the Lilo prompt and setup ?
What
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
>Hi Paul, I have not tried booting "linux failsafe". I would like to try
>that. I am very much a newbie so could you explain exactly how I would do
>that? Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
When you use lilo:
at the prompt, type
linux
Hi Paul, I have not tried booting "linux failsafe". I would like to try
that. I am very much a newbie so could you explain exactly how I would do
that? Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
>Today I started Linux. It started as usual and went through the checks, It
>showed that it was doing a dev/hda3 check forced and said all was OK. Then
>it came to "remounting root filesystem in read-write mode- OK. There it just
>froze and would not cont
