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  • From: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • To: Bob Cottingham <bobcottingham AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /proc not mounted at boot
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:42:22 -0400

Bob Cottingham wrote:
My system was booting fine until several days ago when I received the error '/proc not mounted.. mounting /proc... fstab should include line like...'during the boot process and then it just hangs (message paraphrased from memory). I'm running devel grimoire, sorcery 8.x (not sure any longer). I had the same problem a week or so earlier when trying to get cdrecord to work and it overwrote my fstab, however my fstab file appeared to be fine. Oadae suggested that I might have a missing mount.sh file, and sure enough I didn't have one in /etc/init.d. I took the one in the init.d spell and created the symlinks in rcS.d and so on as he suggested. But I still received the same error upon boot. Any other suggestions? I'm at a loss as to what to do.

oh god... That's a mess. nothing should have overwritten your fstab. sounds like a nightmare...

This is what I have. (I have just recovered from a bad update and am looking at the init spell as it's written and will update it in the days ahead. For now, I hope that the attached scripts will help out.)

Also attached is a copy of my fstab for guidance: note well that proc is first! The mount.sh script, as I've written it, will load these in order they are listed. I need to switch the bottom 2 lines around, come to think of it.

the init spell as written is incorrect, btw. Typo in the BUILD file.
I filed a bugzilla report on it just now.


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Attachment: new-scripts.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data

#/etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

# Virtual, memory only, or non physical file systems

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=256m,nr_inodes=64m 0 0

# Virtual memory swap file
# If you need it then create it with the following commands
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
# mkswap /swapfile
# chmod 000 /swapfile
# Then uncomment the line below.
# /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

/devices/discs/disc2/part2 none swap sw 0 0
/devices/discs/disc2/part1 / reiserfs
defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
/devices/discs/disc1/part3 /mnt/SuSE reiserfs
defaults,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/devices/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/win98 vfat
defaults,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/devices/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/devices/floppy/0u1440 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,exec,sync 0 0
/devices/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/usbcard auto
noauto,users,exec 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto,users 0 0



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