[olug] *urgent* Suse 9.1 pro boot issue (md related?)

[Eric Lusk]

first thing is to check your fstab file from the
command line.  Sounds like it has found an invalid
mount point somehow and is giving up trying to access
it.
Also check your system logs to see if they give a clue
as to what is wrong, but if it's listing valid mount
points, that typically points to an invalid entry in
the fstab or mtab files.
If all else fails, you can often reinstall without
formatting the partitions, saving your data but still
fixing the issue.
--- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:

> I believe that my Suse installation is hosed.  This
> is my main work
> computer.  I don't want to spend another 8 hours
> reinstalling Suse and
> CXOffice and MSOffice.
> 
> I get to a point where it says "Waiting for /dev/0
> to appear...not found."
> Then is lists all the mount points that are valid
> and says "dropping to
> /bin/sh"  and that is as far as it goes.
> 
> Specs:
> Laptop P3 1GHz Dell
> 20GB hda
>    hda1 50 MB fat32 (bootable)
>    hda2 500MB swap
>    hda3 18 GB lvm
>    hda4 50 MB ext2 /boot
> DVD hdb
> 4 GB hdc
>    hdc1 fat32 win2k install
> 
> hda4 is physically in "front" of hda3.  Originally
> all I had was hda1 for
> swap and hda2 for /boot but win2k wanted a small
> partition on the first
> drive for its boot files.
> 
> The lvm is 2GB usr 2GB root 5GB home 2GB opt 2GB var
> 
> I do not think that I use md devices.  I'm not sure
> what they are but I
> think they are raid related.
> 
> I spent all yesterday trying to get win2k on the
> second hard drive.  I had
> to break up my hda and move stuff around to get
> win2k to boot.  When I was
> done I had to boot into rescue mode and redo my lilo
> config.  It worked. 
> I booted into linux and all was good again.  I then
> rebooted into Win2k to
> test it.  I rebooted again to go back to Linux and i
> received the "waiting
> to exhale.." message from above. I hit "ctrl alt
> delete" and it says
> "Stopping md devices" and then it reboots.
> 
> Google searches for "suse waiting for /dev to
> appear" talk about changing
> from kernel 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 with YOU.  They also talk
> about /dev/900
> pointing to /dev/md0 but my error isn't /dev/  I did
> that but have booted
> into linux many times since then.
> 
> Is it possible that the /dev/md is somehow blocking
> my startup?  Is there
> a way to disable the md with a kernel parameter at
> startup?
> 
> Thanks
> Eric Penne
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