[Leaplist] Serious computer trouble here

Wed Feb 17 16:28:23 EST 2010

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It sounds like you have a UUID specified in your /etc/fstab file that no
longer exists.

While you are in single user mode you need to edit /etc/fstab and find
out what that filesystem is.  If it is something that is no longer being
used (as in maybe a temporary mount for the drive you removed) then
comment the line and reboot.  If it is a filesystem you moved to a
different device then you need to update the UUID string.  You can find
out the UUID of the new filesystem with:
tune2fs -l /dev/sd?? | grep UUID
(of course change the ?? to the right device)

If you get a read only filesystem error on /etc/fstab then try:
mount -nvo remount,rw /

On 02/17/10 16:21, William Ferguson wrote:
> My main computer runs Fedora 11.  The computer originally had a single
> internal Hard Drive of 500GB capacity. I later installed a second
> internal Hard Drive with 250 GB capacity. Not long after installing
> the 250 GB Hard Drive the original 500 GB Hard Drive Failed .
> 
> Anticipating that I will soon download and install Fedora 12  I
> decided it was time to remove the failed, original, internal, 500 GB
> Hard Drive. My plan was to leave the 250 GB Hard Drive, which has
> worked fine for months, in the computer and it contains all my present
> files. I planned to install Fedora 12 on the new 500 GB Hard Drive and
> use it for almost future computer work.
> 
> So, today I removed the old, failed, 500 GB Hard Drive. I was careful
> to ground myself on the metal chassis of the computer many times
> during the mechanical work. Actually, the only work required was to
> pull a flat  1/2 inch wide plastic plug and flat cable out of its Jack
> and removed a 5 conductor plug and cable out of its Jack.
> 
> With the computer's one removed side Panel re-installed, I booted up
> the machine.
> 
> Now I'm getting to what is wrong:
> When I booted up the computer I hit "Scroll Lock" to freeze the opening screen.
> "CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x 2  Dual core processor  4200 Speed 2.20 GHz  Count: 2
> 
> Press F2 to run Setup
> Press F11 for boot menu
> Dual Channel memor mode
> 3968 MB   OK
> Auto detecting Pri Master .. Atapi CDROM
> Auto Detecting Primary Slave ... Atapi CDROM
> Autodetecting SATAII..IDE Hard Disk
> Autodetecting SATAII 2... IDE Hard Disk
> Pri Master: TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S202N SB01
>         Ultra DMA Mode -4
> Pri Slave: TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S202N SB01
>         Ultra DMA Mode -4
> SATAII:  ST3250310AS 4.AAA
>         Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T.  Capable but disabled
> SATAII 2: ST3500418AS  CC38
>         Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled
> 
> I hit ENTER and the Boot up process continued.
> User sees a horizontally growing bar graph of changing shade of blue
> color growing across
> the bottom of the screen as boot up develops and finishes.
> 
> Here's what came up on the screen:
> "Starting udev
>                                                                  OK
> Setting host name   violin.home
>                                                 OK
> mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
> Setting up Logical Volume Management
>                                      OK
> Checking File Systems
> /dev/sda8:  clean (big numbers of files and of blocks were displayed. Numbers
>                              not the names of the files)
> /fsck.ext3:   Unable to resolve 'UUID=a9758531-4fb3-4aa7-b357-5688de0cddcb'
> /dev/sda7:  clean, 21837/1281120 files,  4360487/5120710 blocks
> /dev/sda9:  clean,  (again, big numbers of files and blocks)"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> FAILED
> ***An error occurred during the file system check.
> ***Dropping you to a shell;  the system will reboot when you leave the shell*
> ***Warning -- SELinux is active
> ***Disabling security enforcement for ystem recovery.
> ***Run 'setenforce 1'  to reenable'
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or Type Control-D to continue)
> 
> 
> 
> I typed the root passwword:
> The screen then read:
> "bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inapapropriate ioctl for
>      device.
> bash: no job control in this shell
> (Repair filesystem) 1 #
> 
> I tried Control-D
> Response was: GNU GRUB version 0.97  (639K lower / 3013312K upper memory
> A choice of 3 different Fedora 11 versions was offered.
> Also offered were the options of booting the selected Op. System,
> using 'e' to edit the commands before booting;  'a' to modify the
> kernel arguments bfore booting, or 'c' for a command line.
> 
> I typed df -h   The response was:  /dev/sda8  Size 20 G  Used 4.0 G
> Avail 15 g Used 22%
>                    Mounted on /
> 
> ============================================================================
> Is there any way for me to cure this condition?  The computer is unusable.
> It seems that both the Hard Drives now installed in the machine are
> "capable" but disabled.
> 
> I know it's obvious that I don't how to handle this problem.
> 
> Any advice and guidance will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> William
> 

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