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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

I got that too.

I used the old, old sorcery ISO I installed from (before the "fork") to go
in and mount my root to /mnt, and /mnt/bin/tar around a bit until I found
that mount.sh was somehow "missing".

This mounting only in read only problem?

mount.sh in /etc/init.d is probably not there.  So I found it in my devel
grimoire (still in rescue mode) using an ls -R | grep -B 8 mount.sh
(find was having linking problems, etc, etc, so I had to go back to
scripting it), and noticed that it was in
/var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/sgl/init.d/mount.sh.bz2
run a /mnt/usr/bin/bzip2 -d mount.sh.bz2 on that and /mnt/bin/cp it to
/etc/init.d

Then rebooted and it still didn't work then I remembered the symbolic
links from rc?.d probably didn't exist anymore.  Went back in, fixed
those (added K90mount -> ../init.d/mount.sh to rc0 and rc6 and S10mount ->
../init.d/mount.sh to rc1 through rc5, and I had to use /mnt/bin/ln to do
that, too since the old install cd didn't have it on it.

It was a fun half an hour.

I know I'm using devel, but can we be a "little" bit more careful?  I
don't know whether or not it was the overheat crash my laptop had that
caused it to lose those files in the middle of an upgrade, so I can't
necessarily point the finger at anybody :), but I decided to add how I got
around it once I saw a few reports on the mailing lists and in forums.

I'll be idling in the irc as swoolley if anybody needs step-by-step
instructions on how to duplicate what I did :)

Seth

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, M.L. wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:14:28 +0200
> From: M.L. <m.l AT compaqnet.fr>
> To: Eric Womack <eric AT lasvegasdata.com>,
>      sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Total install failure
>
> On Jeudi 12 Septembre 2002 19:23, Eric Womack wrote:
> > Since I was knocked out of commission, I have been through 6 re-installs 
> > on
> > two seperate machines.
> >
> > On one, I consistently get the vc spawning too fast error which I am 
> > unable
> > to fix (even using the CD as a boot device).
> >
>
> No wait... I remember: the root partition is mounted read only and never
> remounted rw...
>
>
>
> > On the other, I now have this weird complaint about egrep -m not being an
> > option everytime I cast and half of the things I cast fail.
> >
> > Is an updated ISO being worked up (because right now I am a perfect
> > canidate for a test install from scratch) or do I just keep trying hoping
> > that something magical will change?
> >
> > This all started at the gcc 3.2 change-over.  I didn't make it through the
> > change over and have not been able to get back since.
> >
> >
> > Grrrrrrrrr................
> >
> >
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> > Eric Womack
> > System Administrator
> > Las Vegas Data LLC
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