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["Bob Cottingham" <bobcottingham AT hotmail.com>]

After looking through my rc0, rc6 and rcS directories, I didn't find the 
symlinks that I had placed there so after creating those again everything 
booted fine.  Thanks for everyone's help!

Bob

> 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.
>
>
> --
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
> --and those are the ones you have to concentrate on!"
> GW Bush-- from the N.Y. Times
> << new-scripts.tar.bz2 >>
> #/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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