Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot

[Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@fraggod.net>]

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:31:12 +0800
Chuanwen Wu <wcw8410@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> My gentoo failed to boot up. When my gentoo is booting up, after the message
> devpts
> "mounting devpts at /dev/pts     OK",
> then it just stoped, and then I pressed "CTRL + c" to interrupt it, and the
> message:
> "Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot“ appeared.
...
> How to fix this problem?

It seems a bit strange that checkroot gave no output, just failure -
as if it's execution didn't even started, and, since it's one of the
first initscripts to start, prehaps there's a problem with bash
interpreter or access to init.d path.

Since you've mounted filesystem and it looks okay, you can try changing
last two columns in /etc/fstab for root filesystem to "0 0", so script
won't try to check it - that way you can see if it's something with
fsck - prehaps the system will just boot.
Then, if the rest of the initscripts won't throw some similar errors
(possibly exposing the real problem), you can probably insert a lot of
echoes/einfos to that initscript to see at which point everything hangs
and check what's wrong with the command causing it.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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