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.