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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

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.


--
"You can fool some of the people all of the time
--and those are the ones you have to concentrate on!"
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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