Re: Boot hangs on "Mounting local filesystems"

From: Walter Mautner (nextnews.15.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:16:10 +0100

hondacivic@whoever.com wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> My Mandrake 9.1 is hanging on "Mounting local filesystems" pretty much
> every other boot.
> I can't figure out why. The logs don't reveal any problems, and I've
> done 'fsck -f' from a CD rescue boot a number of times, which
> sometimes revealed some problems that were corrected, and other times
> no problems were found.
>
Are your harddisks s.m.a.r.t.-capable? Then download the smartmontools and
monitor your drive(s). Maybe it's beginning to go south.
Try starting in "interactive" mode by pressing "i" at the appropriate time,
or start with esc and "linux 1", then proceed to "init 2".

> Are there any issues or reliability problems with EXT3?

Not that I know of. I would suggest check your harddrives.

> Is there anything I can do to provide people with more information
> that will hopefully eventually lead to the cause of the hang?

Good idea: take a look at the logfiles, especially dmesg and boot.log. 

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