Re: Help: Suse Linux won't boot!

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/28/05


Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:02:48 +0100

In comp.os.linux.misc Chris Carlen <crcarle@bogus.sandia.gov>:
> Hi:

> I have a Suse 9.1 box that has suddenly broke. It gets stuck with a
[..]

You have applied all patches including the kernel?

> bash# mount -n -o remount,rw /
> Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this maintenance
> mode. Shutdown or reboot will not work.
> Give root password for login:
> # mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
                      ^^^^^^^^

There's the problem, had enough problems with reiserfs until
dropping it completely. Zero problems with ext3, which is the
Linux "native" FS as successor of ext2 and has proven to me 100%
stability/reliability on quite a few systems. I'd suggest moving
your system to ext3, save all important data to some backup
media.

Good luck

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