[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Mark Wright]

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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