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[coLinux-users] Colinux 0.6.3 problem

[Dominic B. <dom...@th...>]

Dear All,

Hope someone can help me here.

I have a Fedora Core 5 system running on coLinux 0.6.3 running on 
WinXPsp2 which will not boot - As soon as it has mounted the root 
filesystem in readonly mode (kjournald has started) it restarts.  I 
thought initially that there could some kind of corruption on the root 
disk, but alas another root disk image I have (FC4) boots fine and I can 
then mount the disk without a problem - I've also fsck the disk and that 
checks out fine too.

I suspect that the problem is the in the FC5 boot scripts but I don't 
know where.  Since I cannot see any output from the system during this 
time (syslog isn't started before it restarts) I can't figure out how to 
find out what's going wrong.  Is there any way I can get console output 
from this phase of start-up (the fltk-console doesn't show me either 
even with the system set to boot in "verbose" mode).

Can anyone point me to any ways to get the output from starting up?  I 
reckon if I can see the output then I can modify the start-up scripts so 
I can at least find out where it is rebooting from.

Many thanks.

BTW coLinux is a magnificent piece of software and after running this 
instance handling all my families email for a year this is the first 
significant problem I've run into!

Re: [coLinux-users] Colinux 0.6.3 problem

[Henry N. <Hen...@Ar...>]

Dominic Binks wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Hope someone can help me here.
> 
> I have a Fedora Core 5 system running on coLinux 0.6.3 running on 
> WinXPsp2 which will not boot - As soon as it has mounted the root 
> filesystem in readonly mode (kjournald has started) it restarts.  I 
> thought initially that there could some kind of corruption on the root 
> disk, but alas another root disk image I have (FC4) boots fine and I can 
> then mount the disk without a problem - I've also fsck the disk and that 
> checks out fine too.
> 
> I suspect that the problem is the in the FC5 boot scripts but I don't 
> know where.  Since I cannot see any output from the system during this 
> time (syslog isn't started before it restarts) I can't figure out how to 
> find out what's going wrong.  Is there any way I can get console output 
> from this phase of start-up (the fltk-console doesn't show me either 
> even with the system set to boot in "verbose" mode).

It's an hard idea:
- Mount your FC5 from your FC4
- Backup and edit the file etc/rc.d/rc
- locate this lines
     # Now run the START scripts.
     for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/S* ; do
   and add this line inner the "for" loop:
     echo "enter for %i"; read junk
- Next boot of FC5 you must quit every start script with ENTER key.  ;-)

Hm, but while reading in my FC3 (FC5 I not have), I found 
"/var/run/confirm".  It seems to do the same?  Create this file and try 
your boot.
In etc/rc.sysinit I found, you should set "confirm" in your bootparams, 
then it creates the file /var/run/confirm.  Perhaps you should then boot 
with "rw" for rootfs.

And last: Boot without initrd.

-- 
Henry