Boot up stops at Mounting SMB filesystems

[bash3r]

My Red Hat 9, just started this , during boot up it stops at:
Mounting SMB Filesystems:

I've added lines to my /etc/fstab to mount W2K shares and these have worked before.

How do i get around this so I can at least get to the console to edit the /etc/fstab ??

any ideas!! thanks..

 

[zeland]

I my opinion, I think the Samba implementation in RH9 is broken or buggy. I faced the same problem. smbmount hangs every now and then even when you run it from a console. I had to unplug the network cable during bootup and pluging it back in again when I reach the logon prompt.

 

[clonny2]

Go to single user mode.

when grub comes up edit and pass an argument i think it is -b.

If you are using lilo, then at the prompt before it starts loading linux type linux single

Once you are in single user mode you can edit the files.

When you are done with everything type exit and you will continue to boot up regularly.


>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[Mellegem]

If all else fails and you have another working installation and a diecent internet connection download a bootable iso such as BBC<its quite small>. Its a sure fix.

 

[dwof]

You can enter interactive startup on RedHat. Somewhere in the startup sequence, you get prompted to press I to enter interactive startup. If you press I you have to confirm a lot of the tartup services, among which netfs (mounting samba filesystems). You can just choose not to execute that one. Ie got the same problem with smbmount. I saw a solution on

http://www.hadez.org/articles/technical/redhat9_samba_bug.php3

I don't know if it works yet. Checking on it. I did find out that if you try multiple times (mount -a if the shares get mounted in /etc/fstab) the shares will get mounted. Just execute mount -a and when it hangs press ctrl-c. If you try it a couple of times, everything gets mounted.
Goodluck,

Dolf.

 

[fluid11]

Enter runlevel 1 by typing 'e' at the GRUB prompt on the line that starts with 'kernel'. Append '1' to the end of the line. It will say something like this when your done...

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi 1

Press enter when your happy with the change and then press 'b' to boot off your modified GRUB stanza.

When you reach the shell, edit your /etc/fstab file and then type 'init 3' to move into normal runlevel 3...no need to reboot.




ChrisP
RHCE, LPIC-1, CCNA, CNE, MCSE, +10 others