[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Mark Wright]

Continuing the stab in the dark approach I have been monkeying with
fstab and here is what I have ended up with.  (Still getting "mounting
other file systems" message hang.)

/dev/hda1	/	est3	defaults	1 1
/dev/hda6	/home	ext3	defaults	1 2

none /mnt/cdrom	supermount	dev=/dev/
hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro--,iocharset=iso8859-1	0 0

none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount	dev=/dev/
hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1	0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount	dev=/dev/
fd0,fs=est2:vfat,--,mask=0,codepage=850,sync,iocharset=iso8859-1
0 0

none /proc	proc	defaults	0 0
none /dev/pts	devpts	inode=0620	0 0
/dev/hda5	swap	swap	defaults	0 0


###  Thats it, anybody see anything wrong?

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:14:26 -0400
Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net> wrote:

> 
> I did remember how to get to single user mode.  I looked a fstab and
> found some lines to mount a windows share that is not on my network
> anymore.  I commented them out and got rid of the "mounting smb file
> systems" message.  Yeah!
> 
> Unfortunately I moved to the next problem.  It now hangs on  "mounting
> other file systems"  In fstab there are swap, home and /.  Then the
> removable devices all starting with none, except a line for ipod.  It
> just starts with its mount point /dev/sdb.
> 
> I am going to comment out the ipod just to try something.  I'm
> guessing at this point.
> 
> 
> Mark   
> 
> 
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:42:43 -0400
> Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:25:45PM -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
> > > I have a home desktop that I am trying to upgrade from MDK 9.2 to
> > > 2005 (10.2)  The upgrade seemed to go fine but when it was time to
> > > reboot it hangs at "mounting smb file systems".  It is already at
> > > runlevel 5 by this time and should be starting the x server but it
> > > never gets that far.
> > 
> > I have a very similar problem with a gentoo install once.  It turned
> > out I had a typo in /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > > I have tried to use a standalone CD to boot and disable smb.conf
> > > or some other quick repair but of the three disks I have, Knoppix,
> > > Ubuntu, and mandrake move only Knoppix will boot. This would be
> > > great but it comes up in German and I can't make vi work.  (I can
> > > start it but I can't get insert mode and ESC shift-: won't work)
> > 
> > Not sure why the other rescure disks won't work, but you should be
> > able to boot knoppix into english mode by type "knoppix lang=en" at
> > the boot prompt.  You should also be able to press F2 and F3 at the
> > boot prompt for help.
> > 
> > -- 
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