On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 00:57, brian sanders wrote:
> Greetings,  I am having trouble installing SUSE 9.1 on an IBM R40e.  It 
> seems to install but will not boot after install.  If I have it show 
> details, there is a message about  " can't open etc/mtab  no such file 
> or directory" .    Then it freezes at "starting SSH daemon" I am going 
> to bed now but if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate hearing from 
> them. 

I'm not a SUSE pilot, but here are a couple common things to check.  Are
your filesystems being mounted?  Are they setup in /etc/fstab?  Can you
boot to single-user mode and mount / manually?  Do you have any way to
grab the output from `dmesg` and send it to the list for review?

...Kevin

Thanks for the reply, I can get to the command line if I boot in 
failsafe but cant print DMESG. When I shutdown, it says "tmpfs unmounted 
" and then "/dev/hda2 umounted' which leads this rank amateur to beleive
that the filesystems are the problem. LS in ETC shows both FSTAB and 
MTAB but I am not sure if they are really there. When I try to open
KDE, it displays messages about X server problems and kdeinit.rc not 
found and exits.

Thanks again for your help, Brian

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