I have trouble booting my RH 6.1 server.
The boot process stopped after the root filesystem was mounted in read-only mode and I was left with a bash shell prompt. /sbin/init was not executed and all other filesystems in /etc/fstab were not mounted at all. None of the rc files was executed. The root system was NOT remounted to read-write as it should be in a normal bootup.
Output of 'df' showed only the root system and 'none' mounted on /proc.
I couldn't edit files in /etc because the filesystem was read-only.
I tried "linux init=/sbin/init" at the lilo prompt, but that didn't help. Normally, I did not have to type anything at the lilo prompt to boot the system to runlevel 3.
My /sbin (where init resides) is not in the root filesystem, could this be the cause of problem?
I found this line in lilo.conf right under the "image=" line: "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img " What does "initrd=" do? The man page does not say anything about this option.
Anyone has any idea what went wrong with my system and how to fix it? any info/comments/suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks.
-ycl
The boot process stopped after the root filesystem was mounted in read-only mode and I was left with a bash shell prompt. /sbin/init was not executed and all other filesystems in /etc/fstab were not mounted at all. None of the rc files was executed. The root system was NOT remounted to read-write as it should be in a normal bootup.
Output of 'df' showed only the root system and 'none' mounted on /proc.
I couldn't edit files in /etc because the filesystem was read-only.
I tried "linux init=/sbin/init" at the lilo prompt, but that didn't help. Normally, I did not have to type anything at the lilo prompt to boot the system to runlevel 3.
My /sbin (where init resides) is not in the root filesystem, could this be the cause of problem?
I found this line in lilo.conf right under the "image=" line: "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img " What does "initrd=" do? The man page does not say anything about this option.
Anyone has any idea what went wrong with my system and how to fix it? any info/comments/suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks.
-ycl