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? -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030816/a8b72df3/attachment.pgp