Re: Boot hangs on "Mounting local filesystems"

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 01/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:39:22 +0100

hondacivic@whoever.com wrote:
> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message news:<bsrg63$k1jo$3@ID-130698.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
>>hondacivic@whoever.com wrote:
>>
>>>Walter Mautner <nextnews.15.eatallspam@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message news:<r5i6c1-h92.ln1@mautner.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Good idea: take a look at the logfiles, especially dmesg and boot.log.
>>>
>>>
>>>I do not see any errors or problems in those log files.
>>>I'm thinking that because the hang occurs at the "Mounting local
>>>filesystems", nothing could have been written to these log files,
>>>because the file system holding the log files isn't mounted yet.
>>>
>>>Anything logged in the /boot partition?
>>
>>As long as you haven't reconfigured syslogd to save anythin there, no.
>
>
> Darn, looks like this is yet another one of those problems noone can
> help me with.
> I like and use Linux a lot, but these mysterious and "unsolvable"
> problems are working on my nerves.
>
> Don't get me started on the encryption thing on Linux, what a total
> frigging mess that is.

Maybe your /etc/fstab has got damaged, take your Mandrake CD1 and boot into
rescue mode and see if you can mount the '/' and see if you can see if the
file is damaged.

  //Aho