On Apr 28, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Try reiserfsck from the rescue system (CD or DVD).
I did. It does the consistency checks and reports no errors.
Otherwise, check that etc/fstab matches your partition numbers and types.
I can mount /dev/hda3 on /mnt from the rescue system and look around. My /mnt/etc/fstab says that /dev/hda3 is mounted on / and is a reiserfs, which is correct. The last few lines of boot output are: Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <<== is this the ramdisk? Loading module reiserfs... Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option You may want to retry boot with pci=noacpi or acpi=oldboot on the command line ... etc. I tried pci=noacpi and acpi=oldboot, and neither one made any difference. I tried adding root=/dev/hda3 to the command line. No difference. Likewise root=0303. What is nls_iso8859-1 and why is boot complaining about it? Guidance and insight will be greatly appreciated. /jw -- John Wilkes john at wilkes dot com