[Leaplist] Serious computer trouble here
William Ferguson
ferguson.william at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 13:58:03 EST 2010
Thank you, Kevin,
The suggestion is very appealing.
But, there are some problems with responding to your kind
suggestion----which include:
The distance I'm located from the meeting,
my bride's health, driving at night, (81 ++ yrs. old).
etc.
Many thanks--I'm sorry--- just can't cut it tonight.
William
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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> Is this a machine you can bring to the meeting tonight?
> I will not be there but I am sure someone who can help will be. Bring
> the dead drive too since it sounds like you were probably still using it.
>
> On 02/18/10 11:33, William Ferguson wrote:
>> Kevin, as confessed above, I don't know how to use a text editor and
>> edit the /etc/fstab file.
>> When I installed (mechanically) the New 500 GB Hard Drive I made no
>> commands which might have recognized the new Hard Drive. I just
>> connected up the new Hard Drive and re-booted. I thought Fedora would
>> recognize the new device and configure it to work automatically. Bad
>> judgement, huh?
>>
>> I understand that an /etc/fstab file can be altered but my level
>> of command line usage and text editors is extremely primitive.
>>
>> It follows that I would be unable to specify the "right device." Would
>> that be an "sda number" ?
>>
>> Thanks to you and Bryan for trying.
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
>> 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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