Subject: Re: RQube2 stuck on fsck
To: Kenneth Persing <ken@bigbadapple.com>
From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 08/06/2007 15:39:54
Well I have 192Mb in this qube, so I hope it's not ram. As everyone
has suggested I'm going to get a serial console wired in tonight and
see what I can find out.
Thanks
Glyn
--- Kenneth Persing <ken@bigbadapple.com> wrote:
> 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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