On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:33, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
The machine finds the hard drive (Toshiba) and notes the correct partitioning. But then it says it cannot find root (on /dev/hda3) and puts me into single user mode (after I give the root password). fdisk now says it can't read /dev/hda , but I am able to "ls /" successfully, while df finds /dev/hda3 but not /home on /dev/hda5 . "e2fsck /dev/hda3" says it cannot read the superblock.
Try adding at the boot 'prompt' ide=reverse and see if it works. If that fixes it, add it to lilo.conf.
Sadly that didn't have any effect. Any other ideas? All suggestions more than welcome. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland