Checking File System

Hi All

I have an old system that I am trying to boot that will not boot.

As originally setup there were two HD in the system.
One with data and one with the operating system.

The HD with data has long since been removed and current location is unknown.

The system boots to Finding Modular dependencies: OK
Checking file systems
Couldn't find matching file system: Label=/mnt/Snoopie
This was the name of the old second HD.

I have removed LABEL=/mnt/Snoopie from stab.
I know there is at least one other place I need to remove this LABEL from.

Does anyone have any suggestions where that may be.

Thanks
Frank
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Re: Checking File System

SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have an old system that I am trying to boot that will not boot.
>
> As originally setup there were two HD in the system.
> One with data and one with the operating system.
>
> The HD with data has long since been removed and current location is unknown.
>
> The system boots to Finding Modular dependencies: OK
> Checking file systems
> Couldn't find matching file system: Label=/mnt/Snoopie
> This was the name of the old second HD.
>
> I have removed LABEL=/mnt/Snoopie from stab.
> I know there is at least one other place I need to remove this LABEL from.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions where that may be.
>
> Thanks
> Frank

Please tell us what distribution was originally used.
Please tell us what boot manager is/was used.
Please tell me what 'stab' is (fstab?).
If 'fstab', send us 'fstab' as attachment or inline.
If you can boot from emergency/recovery/install floppy or CDROM,
send us the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/TheDriveInQuestion'.

If you have an install distribution CDROM,
why not reinstall without formatting?

HTH, Chuck




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Re: Checking File System

At 09:24 PM 12/5/2004 -0500, SOTL wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have an old system that I am trying to boot that will not boot.
>
>As originally setup there were two HD in the system.
>One with data and one with the operating system.
>
>The HD with data has long since been removed and current location is unknown.
>
>The system boots to Finding Modular dependencies: OK
>Checking file systems
>Couldn't find matching file system: Label=/mnt/Snoopie
>This was the name of the old second HD.
>
>I have removed LABEL=/mnt/Snoopie from stab.
>I know there is at least one other place I need to remove this LABEL from.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions where that may be.


All this stuff is somewhat distribution dependent, and you haven't said
which distro you use. For boot/init purposes, usually you only have to deal
with the entries in /etc/fstab (I assume "stab" was a typo for this), which
is where the scripts that handle fsck'ing and mounting look for info on
what filesystems to mount.

Does the system go on to finish the init process after you get this
message? It should, probably, since a filesystem mounted at /etc/Snoopie
certainly isn't your root (/) filesystem. If it doesn't ... see if a
well-placed CRTL-C will cauwe the process to resume. Once you have the
system running, you can check for the source of the init problem more
easily. Otherswise, you're going to have to boot from a rescue floppy of CD
and mount the remaining filesystem to

If you post again in this, please round up the usual suspects -- tell us
the distro and version, the kernel version ("uname -a"), and whether the
system continues to init or stops at the point you are describing. Oh yes,
also the contents of /etc/fstab -- /etc/Snoopie is almost surely not the
"name of the old second HD"; it is the mount point for a filesystem
(probably /dev/hdb1, or maybe /dev/hdc1, or possibly something else) on the
second hard disk (/dev/hdb or /dev/hdc correspondingly).




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