In article <1992Apr16.120449.17752@athena.mit.edu>, szb50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce) writes:
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>    Does anyone know how I can recover the "LOCK-FILE".
> I boot from floppy at0, then root is on hda4 which is ok.
> hda6 (/usr) or any other filesystem does not mount.
> hda1 158MB MSDOG
> hda2/hda3 Minix
> hda4/6 as described above for Linux (created by Minix fdisk).
>          I hit this problem after perhaps removing a floppy from at0
> and not umounting it, then mounting another floppy.
>     Checking on Minix, everything on the Linux filesystems is still intact.
> Using either 0.95a or 0.05c boot floppies, I get the following......
> Partition tables ok
>     ......
> Free mem: 6291456 bytes
> mount: unable to open lock-file
> All systems funtioning
> /usr/bin/setterm: not found
> Welcome to Linux
> Login as "root" .......
> ******************************
> system comes up but can't mount anything of course.
> Regards
> Sid Boyce ... G3VBV
> **** Amdahl (UK) Tech Ops Group ****

This is becoming a FAQ.  look for /etc/mtab~  if it exists, delete it.

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