[TriLUG] filesystem error on upgrade to RH 7.2

[Richard O. Hammer]

Recently I attempted to upgrade my RH 7.0 to RH 7.2.  My RH
7.0 was working correctly, as far as I know, in a box which
could also boot to Win98 and Minix.

Following the upgrade script seemed to work pretty smoothly,
except for one point where it was asking me about my swap
partition.  It said something like (from my memory) "Error,
7.2 requires more swap space.  You must have at least 64 MB. 
Your partition has only 65 MB."

Here is the list (from my notebook) of the partitions I was
working with before the upgrade:

	hda1 Primary Win95 FAT        3150 MB
	hda2 Primary Linux ext2 boot    25 MB
	hda5 Logical Linux ext2       5198 MB

	hdb1 Primary Linux swap         68 MB
	hdb2 Primary Linux ext2       1377 MB
	hdb3 Primary Minix/old Linuix  250 MB

Generally I have not done anything to change that structure,
except:
1. I consented to upgrade my Linux filesystems from ext2 to
ext3, and
2. In order to proceed past the crazy message about my swap
partition I consented to have a swap file elsewhere, 200 MB in
hda5.

Now with the upgrade completed when I try to boot my 7.2 I
get:

	*** An error occurred during the file system check.
	*** Dropping you to a shell: the system will reboot 
	*** when you leave the shell.
	Give root password for maintenance
	(or type Control-D for normal startup):

After entering my password I get this prompt:

	(Repair Filesystem) 1 #

I have discovered that I can do many things at this prompt. 
Most basic commands seem to be available.

When I type "cat /etc/fstab" I get (typos are possible here):

LABEL=/      /            ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot  /boot        ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner    0 0
none         /proc        proc    defaults        0 0
none         /dev/shm     tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none         /dev/pts     devpts  gid=5,moce=620  0 0 
/dev/hdb1    swap         swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdb2    /driveB      ext3    defaults        1 2
# the following line awaits fixing
# /dev/hdb3  /Minix       81      defaults        0 0
/SWAP        swap         swap    defaults        0 0

[The two # lines (commented-out) in this fstab remain from an
earlier difficulty, I believe they have no effect on my
present difficulty.]

When I type "fdisk -l" I get (more typos possible):

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Start    End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/hda1   *       1    383   3076416   b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2         384    386     24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3         387   1027   5148832+  5 Extended
/dev/hda5         387   1018   5076508+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Start    End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/hdb1   *       1     33     66496+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb2          34    700   1344672  83 Linux
/dev/hdb3         701    821    243936  81 Minix / old Linux


Also, I've discovered is that my main filesystem is mounted
"read-only".

I would like help in proceeding to troubleshoot this.

Thank you,
Rich Hammer