Subject: Re: RQube2 stuck on fsck
To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
From: Kenneth Persing <ken@bigbadapple.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 08/06/2007 09:29:38
If you are monitoring this via the lcd on the back, then you might not
see this, so make sure you are watching it boot via serial. Unless you
have a fair amount of RAM, an fsck could crash the qube on a large HD.
I think I was running a 160GB on w/32MB of memory when it could not run
an fsck w/o abending. Adding more RAM fixed the problem. Quoting Glyn
Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>:
> Hi James,
>
> The disk is 320Gb.
>
> How do I boot into single user mode?
>
> Glyn
>
> --- James Hartley <jjhartley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/5/07, Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Today whilst unraring pkgsrc my machine hung.
>> > ...
>> > Now it won't boot, it gets stuck at fsck, been sat there for a
>> couple
>> > of hours now.
>>
>> What's the size of the disk, & can you boot into single-user mode?
>>
>
>
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