Problem with linux-2.4.24 under SuSE-8.0
Not sure if I managed to post this before - apologies if it is an encore - but I'm still looking for an answer. I'm running SuSE-8.0 on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook laptop, while I'm running Fedora-1 on my desktop. I've compiled linux-2.4.24 on both with the same config file. It runs perfectly under Fedora, but under SuSE I get a strange boot failure. 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. In short, things seem fairly screwed up, though in a consistent way - I've compiled 2.4.24 two or three times, and I always get exactly the same symptoms. Returning to 2.4.22 on my SuSE laptop, everything runs fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? Or does anyone have any advice or suggestions what I should do? I'm tempted to install Fedora on my laptop in place of SuSE, but would prefer not to. -- 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
On 02/24/2004 07:44 PM, Timothy Murphy 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. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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
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