Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Hilary Hertzoff <hhertzof@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried this on the x86_64 list, but no one was able to help me and
I'm not having any luck with google - I suspect it's a terminology
problem.

I had a bad hard drive crash last weekend. KDE froze to the point that I
needed to do a hard reboot (the problem turned out to be a memory stick that
was loose).

Tried to repair it using a SuSE boot disk and the repair option under
install.  This made things worse.

2 partitions - /dev/hda1 is a linux swap and /dev/hda2 is a bootable
reiserfs (kicking myself now that I didn't make home a separate partition).

My current state is that if I try to boot that drive, I get a Grub error 16.
I can't get into Grub to edit the boot setup

SuSE recognizes the partitions but fails when I try mounting the partition
on another drive, repair using the tools under installation or update. I've
used a rescue cd to check the disk with fdisk and gnu-parted - they agree on
the partitions but gnu-parted is reporting that I have 2 TB of space used on
a 163GB partition.

I have no clue what to do next.  Should I try resizing the partition and
hope it "deletes" the extra used space or is there some other way to force a
recheck or reindex of the partition.

System Details: X86_64 on a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard.  1024kb ram now
properly installed and being recognized. The drive in question is made by
Hitachi but I don't have the details handy.  However, I don't think any of
this should matter since the problem doesn't seem to be hardware related.

Thanks
Hilary

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Hilary L. Hertzoff
Young Adult Librarian
Mamaroneck Public Library
hhertzof@xxxxxxxxx