Hardware problem

[Matthew Carpenter]

Rick Sivernell wrote:

>Hi all
>
>  Got a machine hard drive problem. This machine has Suse pro 9.0 loaded. On the
>/ I have /dev/hda3 formated with reiserfs, the drive is a 6 gig IDE. The boot
>system drops into maintence mode, I assume that this is run level 2 or 3, but the
>/ is mounted as read only. I would like to run fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree
>/dev/hda3. The problem here it is mounted, I need to remount as rw. I have tried
>the following: mount -o rw /dev/hda3 /, but there is no joy here. I must have
>neglected something or confused. Any help to educate mewould be appreciated.
>
>  
>
You DON'T want a filesystem mounted RW to run fsck.  That's bad. (that's 
bad! that's bad! that's bad!)

When changing / back and forth between RO and RW, don't forget the "-n" 
parameter, since /etc/mtab (updated with each mount/umount) is on / and 
will be RO at some point in the process.

mount -n -o remount,rw /
mount -n -o remount,ro /

>  2nd question, if the first is fixed, I have a second drive a scsi 4.3g formated
>as vfat for wine work. In fstab the system has it as /dev/system/windows not as
>sdax. If I try and use sda1 I get errors, is there something wrong with this,
>also the drive has a grp of root & own as root and will noteven allow root to
>change this. I will post the fstab if it will help or any other info. This
>machine is 350 Mhz Intel cpu.
>
>Cheers
>
>  
>
Does /dev/system/windows exist?  If so it is likely an LVM volume, which 
means that the partition(s) on /dev/sda (should) have been set as 
partition type LVM and added to a Volume Group.  The LVM subsystem needs 
to be running in order to access this data.

Unless of course that is remaining config from a previous setup.  If so, 
I'm not sure what to do.  Run fdisk /dev/sda and see what the partitions 
are marked as.  If none are marked as LVM and instead some FAT variant, 
you should be good to go using /dev/sdaX.  However, if there is 
remaining LVM config which thinks it uses the /dev/sdaX then you may 
have to remove that config.