Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, September 16, 2006 @ 8:27 PM, Paul Abrahams wrote:

>I just tried the following at a grub prompt, combining several suggestions:

>root (hd0,7)
>setup (hd0)
>kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=normal
>initrd /initrd

>The last of these gave the message:

>   Error 16. Inconsistent filesystem structure

>I did the obvious:

>   fsck -fy /dev/hda7
>   fsck -fy /dev/hda8

>and got no errors.

>Just to cover all the bases, I also tried:

>root (hd0,7)
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=normal
>initrd /boot/initrd

>and got the same error message with Error 16.

>I was running the rescue system with /dev/hda7 mounted and then chrooted.  
>The /boot directory did not have an initrd file.  I then ran mkinitrd, but 
>that did not create a mkinitrd file in /boot either.

>I am very puzzled.

>Paul

Just for the heck of it, you might check /boot/grub/device.map and
/etc/grub.conf to make sure they're in sync with /boot/grub/menu.lst.  I
somehow had those out of sync once upon a time, which, of course, caused me
all sorts of problems.

Greg Wallace