Project 001: Multi-boot Troubleshooting
February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Installing Multiple Linux Distributions and Windows XP Professional on a Single Computer
n the next few days we will update this section as we make progress on our project. The end goal is to install Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Suse Linux 10, and Fedora Core 4.
The following are some of the errors that we have encountered thus far, but have overcomed in the past few days.
On Monday, February 02, 2006, I installed and updated Fedora Core 4 with some of the latest updates. I downloaded and installed the latest kernel 2.6.14 and a few other minor updates. Sadly, I suffered from a setback for about 2.5 hours as I scrambled to find an answer to my dilemma. The easiest thing to do at this point was to just reinstall the operating system. However, how would I ever pin point the cause of the problem.
For some reason, the file system did not unmount cleanly. I did not perform a forced shutdown as others throughout the web have mentioned. On the contrary, I updated my system, then I proceeded to logout, then reboot my system. I restarted the system only to discover that I could not boot from the latest or earliest kernel.
A few things that I noticed prior to rebooting the system, was that their were a few folders named lost+found. As a default user I could not access the contents of these folders.
Once I restarted the computer, I noticed the following message:
Error: /:Unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck Manually without -a or -p.
The only logical remedy for me at this point was to boot from the DVD installation media, otherwise I knew I would have to start over from scratch. Many online resources proved to be unhelpful. So, I mounted the file system. I typed the command to perform a file system check as the root user. To recover, I went to the command shell: chroot /mnt/sysimage. Then, command shell: fsck Then, I answered yes to all the proceeding questions. Actually typed: y. Luckily, I did not have many errors that needed to be corrected. Alternatively, I could have just as easily typed at the command shell: fsck -y. Then, I typed: exit. Typed: exit. The system then rebooted without any further problems.
Possible causes for the above problems: Deviated a slight bit from the instructions posted on Novell Cool Solutions for the installation of multiple linux distributions. I did not mount data etc/fstab and I set the clock for UTC. Moreover, I performed too many updates all at once without fully understanding the updates that I was installing on the system.
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