Thanks for the advice. I got the thing going by disabling xfs temporarily. +might still meet the deadline :)
Sorry about the confusion with XFS/xfs. I figured out what was causing problems... I had changed the auto.master mount point to / so xfs would not start. I have updated my kernel and other packages. and cleaned up my network configuration. Do you think there is any advantage in updating to RH 8, 9 or 10. My programmes run fine on 7.3. But I do still have issues with printing to network printers (it wont) and getting ssh to work from my W2K workstation. Pete -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:37:00 +0800, Peter Davies wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > I made a folder called /initrd and the thing booted past that. > I upgraded the kernel to the .smp version and reinstalled xfs again and grub Erhm, "xfs"? Previously you wrote "XFS" which is an entirely different thing than "xfs", the X font server. But don't mind, I didn't comment on that because your kernel did not even load. ;) > But it still hangs on the starting xfs > > here are the ouputs you asked for, Micheal > > ->copy of grub.conf (before I have upgraded to kernel.smp) With SMP kernel it's even more important to install a kernel newer than 2.4.18-3 because that one can crash the file-system. > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,5) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda8 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=1 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3) > root (hd0,5) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda8 hdd=ide-scsi idebus=66 ide0ata=66 idebus=66? What hardware is this?! > -->output from parted /dev/hda I did ask for "parted /dev/hda print". > -->output from RPM -V kernel > > S.5....T /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o > S.5....T /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/i830.o '5' = checksum changed. Shouldn't happen, unless you installed own drivers over the original ones. > xfs starts OK from /etc/rc0.d/K10xfs restart > I tried moving xfs out of xinit.d then I thought I could start it later, but then > the file xfs didnt exist Don't hack! Temporarily, you can disable xfs with chkconfig xfs off service xfs stop as "root". You may need to verify and reinstall many more packages. On Red Hat Linux 7.3 you can use this su -l root rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt less rpm-Va.txt to find out which packages report modified/damaged files. You may need to debug your networking setup as well. In particular, make sure you have the loopback device "127.0.0.1 localhost" configured in /etc/hosts. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/OGmB0iMVcrivHFQRAofKAJ9qpb7h8eFJ/DTREf63e1yQWTsTeQCdELl0 mTVLn1UGMq9kxQtWWHakDC0= =38K/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
