[sf-lug] Hayes Valley Mystery

[Tom Haddon]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:38 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Tom Haddon wrote:
> 
> > So the questions here are:
> > • How did the system boot from a device that it failed to mount (we know
> > it was booting from /dev/sda1 because the changes we'd made
> > to /boot/grub/menu.lst when we manually mounted /dev/sda1 before
> > rebooting were applied)?
> 
> Sounds like it worked because GRUB's ext2/ext3 driver could read it; Linux 
> never had to, for it to boot.

Aha, yeah, that makes sense.

> 
> > • How can we mount a partition if it's failing to be mounted as part of
> > the boot sequence?
> 
> Well, sounds like you should fsck and then see if it mounts.

Well it mounts fine. And an fsck produced no problems. Do you know what
command options would do an "exhaustive" check, as I just did fsck with
no options.

> 
> > • What checks can we do on the filesystem to confirm it's all good?
> 
> fsck, I guess...?
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
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