Fwd: Re: [SLE] Kernel Panic and Boot Disk Nightmare
On Monday 05 August 2002 22:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 05 August 2002 22:24, Nick Selby wrote:
This is what separates people like you from people like me. I did that because I didn't understand what the hell I was doing. I got confused, frankly between the man entries for fsck and e2fsck. Saw somethng in the former that suggested that the latter did something the former did with a lot of switches without having to use them
That wasn't what I meant. I meant at install time, why you chose to go with an ext2 file system. But it isn't important, because I just realized that e2fsck can be used with ext3 partitions too. I hope that's what you used, because ext2 is just *too* old :)
At install time, i swear, I just took what was offered.
Here's all I got from Tomsrtbt:
<snip>
w(rite).
Hm. Didn't you get a command prompt after this? Like this
Command (m for help):
where you could type "p" (or "w", as the warning suggested)?
Yes, and I did w as suggested and it came back with with that but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause
problems with:
1. Software that runs at boot time (eg old versions of lilo) 2. Booting and partitioning software from other os's (eg dos, fdisk, os/2 fdisk)
Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5
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On Tuesday 06 August 2002 09:49, Nick Selby wrote:
At install time, i swear, I just took what was offered.
OK, in that case you have reiserfs, since that's SuSE's default. That means you should use reiserfsck, not e2fsck.
Which is better, but still not quite there.
OK, and what did "p" give you? If you try reiserfsck, do you get the same warning about "zero length partition" or does that run ok? //Anders
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:42, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 09:49, Nick Selby wrote:
At install time, i swear, I just took what was offered.
OK, in that case you have reiserfs, since that's SuSE's default. That means you should use reiserfsck, not e2fsck.
# reiserfsck /dev/hda reiserfsck: not found #
Which is better, but still not quite there.
OK, and what did "p" give you?
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda2 * 3 897 7189087+ b win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 898 2432 12329887+ f win95 ext(LBA) /dev/hda5 ? 258811 249375 2071690107 f6 unknown Whoops...
If you try reiserfsck, do you get the same warning about "zero length partition" or does that run ok?
Can't run it, actually
//Anders
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:50, Nick Selby wrote:
# reiserfsck /dev/hda reiserfsck: not found
Tom's root boot can't handle reiserfs??? OK, not much use on a default SuSE system then.
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda2 * 3 897 7189087+ b win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 898 2432 12329887+ f win95 ext(LBA) /dev/hda5 ? 258811 249375 2071690107 f6 unknown
Whoops...
Whoops indeed. That's looks a bit corrupt to me. Unless someone else has an idea on how to fix that, I'd say it's time for a reinstall //Anders
* Anders Johansson;
Tom's root boot can't handle reiserfs??? OK, not much use on a default SuSE system then.
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda2 * 3 897 7189087+ b win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 898 2432 12329887+ f win95 ext(LBA) /dev/hda5 ? 258811 249375 2071690107 f6 unknown
Whoops...
Whoops indeed. That's looks a bit corrupt to me. Unless someone else has an idea on how to fix that, I'd say it's time for a reinstall
Warning I had only two cups of Coffee yet Have you had a chance to look with *gpart* it is good for recovering partion info and fixing bad entries. Try to find a boot disk with gpart it may help -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:22, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
* Anders Johansson;
on 06 Aug, 2002 wrote: Tom's root boot can't handle reiserfs??? OK, not much use on a default SuSE system then.
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda2 * 3 897 7189087+ b win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 898 2432 12329887+ f win95 ext(LBA) /dev/hda5 ? 258811 249375 2071690107 f6 unknown
Whoops...
Whoops indeed. That's looks a bit corrupt to me. Unless someone else has an idea on how to fix that, I'd say it's time for a reinstall
Warning I had only two cups of Coffee yet
Have you had a chance to look with *gpart* it is good for recovering partion info and fixing bad entries. Try to find a boot disk with gpart it may help
You know what? This seems so beyond that I'm prepared mentally to wipe the whole drive and start over. What's the best way to go about this? I tell ya, this is really fun and interesting, seeing as how this is a machine I really couldn't care less about and it's teaching me heaps! Nick
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