On Wed, 26 May 2004 10:47:40 -0500
"Miroslav Halas" <fedora(a)bastafidli.com> wrote:
could you please help me with this problems. We have several
computers running Fedora Core 1. All of them were working perfectly
for some time (several months). Then last week two of them stopped
booting. They start booting and then stop after message Enabling swap
space. All the computers have the same fixed configuration running just
plain Fedora with one custome application. After analyzing user's
behaviour we think it may have something to do with use of USB key.
Our users plug in USB key to transfer some data. The only commong
behaviour we could identify was that if the users removed the key during
shutdown or sometimes plugged it in during startup it rendered the
computer unbootable.
Hi Miroslav,
Don't know what the issue might be that caused this. In order to get going you
can modify the /etc/fstab on the computer to comment out the swap entries.
This should let you boot without enabling swap. Then you can do some testing
to see why there is a problem enabling swap and recover any data.
To edit the /etc/fstab file, boot from rescue mode of CD1 and mount the drive.
Or you could modify the boot line, adding "init=/bin/sh" which will get you to
a command prompt without mounting swap devices. (you may have to do
"mount / -oremount,rw" to make the filesystem writable before editing
the /etc/fstab)
Good Luck,
Sean
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