On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:09:35AM -0500, PHPTOm wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a red hat 9 box here at home.  I am somewhat new to Linux.  I
> rebooted this morning and I got this message:
> 
> <msg>
> 
> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: Cannot open file '/proc/mounts/'for reading (No
> such file or directory)
> Couldn't open /proc/partitions: No such file or directory.
> Is /proc mounted?
> 
> *** An error occurred during the file system check
> *** Dropping you into a shell
> 
> </msg>
> 
> Then I can log in as root and see all my directories.  I just don't know
> where to start repairing the system.
> 
> Any ideas/experience with this?
> 

I can't say I've dealt with this problem personally, but if I had to,
I'd look to see if /proc was mounted.  What does ls /proc say?  Do you
have a line like:

  proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0

in /etc/fstab?

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