Re: hang on bootstrap

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

in my case it is a PII with a classic IDE hard drive... which worked 
just before... for years!

It is something new, also I wonder.. .how to fix it now :)

Riccardo

Marek Benc wrote:
> I'm experiencing exactly the same problem.This is a Pentium 3 based 
> machine with a classic IDE hard drive.
>
> On 09/08/2014 10:30 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after the last udpate (I admit, a couple of weeks ago before the 
> > holiday season) which was apparently successful, my system doesn't 
> > boot anymore.
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > <...>
> > start ext2fs: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: FILESYSTEM NOT UNMOUNTED 
> > CLEANLY; PLEASE fsck
> > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[device:hd0s1] exec
> >
> > And here it hangs forever, no disk activity, nothing (although 
> > eventually the screen will blank)
> >
> > I then tried to enter GRUB and use the "recovery mode" ( is this the 
> > new wording for single-user?)
> >
> > The output changes, but hangs in the same place:
> >
> > <...>
> > start ext2fs: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: FILESYSTEM NOT UNMOUNTED 
> > CLEANLY; PLEASE fsck
> > ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: MOUNTED READ-ONLY; MUST USE 'fsysopts 
> > ''writable'
> > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[device:hd0s1] exec
> >
> >
> > What is happening? is ext2fs server haning because my filesystem 
> > wasn't cleanly unmounted? It would be nice to get at least in 
> > single-user and run fsck!
> >
> > Riccardo