Torsdag den 26. august 2004 02:47 skrev Doug McGarrett:
About 10 days ago I reported a system crash, where I could not boot the machine anymore--it hung in the boot process, whether in normal boot or safe boot.
I was advised on this list to use the rescue boot on the DVD. I did not really get to it until tonite, but I got the DVD rescue boot going, after learning that I had to log in as root, and then I couldn't really get any further.
The system: 2 regular hard drives, several scsi devices. Win XP is on the first hd (I hope) and Linux is on the second. Booter is GRUB.
I understand that you cannot fsck a mounted disk, so I did not attempt (at least at first) to mount the disk. I do not know what partitions are on the second drive, I just let SuSE install the thing, and it _insisted_ on Reiser, so I let it.
I sent the command reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hdb1
after some useless words on screen, I get this:
bread cannot read this block (2): (Invalid argument) reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiser fs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hdb1. failed to open the device '/dev/hdb1': invalid argument Aborted
(The SuSE manual is not much help: it assumes you have ext2fs (P241).)
So what do I do next, guys? Help! I would really like to save this installation, rather than starting over, since there is data on the disk I do not know how to salvage.
What you do next is actually easy: Boot with your install media: Select "INSTALL" and then "REPAIR" and watch the options. With regard to the manual "admin guide" for 9.1 Check "appendix D" Why they didn't write about that "Repair option" in the book is a mystery to me. Good luck Johan