Nikos Mouat (nikm@cyberflunk.com)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:03:01 -0800 (PST)
is there anything actually on your /home partition? If not, just newfs it
and be done with it.. does 'fsck -y /dev/<home partition>' actually fail
or do the warnings intimidate you? Normally you can proceed as normal
after fsck-ing the drive (if the bootup failed and dumped you to a shell,
just type 'exit' to continue after fscking)
on a side note, you might want to go with R5 as the glibc-1.99 on r4 is
the cause of infinite headaches for me.. I'm nuking the box once R5 is out
and installing R5 in the hopes that things will work more predictably.
nm
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Adam Lang wrote:
> So I started over, and I appear to have finally gotten LinuxPPC
> to install correctly onto my ANS 500. Because of certain, shall
> we say, inconsistancies, between the installer.coff that I picked
> up and the RedHat for the pre-R5 release, I was forced to use the
> R4 stuff that I got on the PowerLinux CD.
>
> The installer worked, all the way through. I was shocked. But
> then when I rebooted the machine, it didn't manage to boot all
> the way up... it did an automatic fsck and although it didn't find
> anything wrong with my root, /usr, or /opt partitions, it died on
> my /home partition (2.7 gigs). I tried, as it suggested, running
> fsck.ext2 without the -a flag, and got a long story of inodes and
> something-or-other numbers that should be 1 instead of 0, or 4453,
> or whatever.
>
> I'm so close I can taste it... pleeeeeease help...
>
> --Adam Lang
>
> Adam Lang, LAP Technologies, 786 Sharmon Palms Ln. Suite D, Campbell, CA 95008
> (408) 374-5636 thalen@cs.pdx.edu
>
> "There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home."
> -- 1977, Ken Olsen, President of DEC Inc.
>
>
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