how can I mount proc file systems

There's not enough information to go on. Is this a new install? Or was it working and something has change? What distribution?

There could be a lot of reasons. Is support compiled into the kernel? Is there aproc directory? I take it you have an entry inetc-fstab or it would not have tried to mount it, but what does the entry look like?

Particularly, there it should never try to runfsckon the proc filesystem, so if it is actually trying to do that, your entry inetc-fstab is probably wrong. Mine looks like this:

none proc proc defaults 0 0

There could be other variations, but the important part forfsckis the fifth field (but you want to check the forth one too) which *must* be 0 (and the forth one, used bydumpas opposed tofsck-, should also be 0), which tellsfscknot to check the filesystem for this entry.

The first thing to do is probably to comment out the entry inetc-fstab, boot without mounting a proc filesystem, and test it manually. Try "mount -t proc procproc" and see what happens. Only when that works correctly do you want to try it inetc-fstab. You might check that before rebooting too, just by doing "mountproc" to see ifmountlikes what it finds inetc-fstab.

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