Hi, On Fri, Dec 04, Christopher A. Martin wrote:
First I wanted to thank everyone on this list who helps the newbies like me. (and for not being *too* brutal when we say the occasional uninformed thing, etc.)
Now that I have buttered you up, I have a BIG PROBLEM. My system WAS working beautifully. But, in my attempts to install LILO, something has gone very wrong. Everything seemed to go flawlessly, LILO started, but then I got that "Unable to open initial console" error. So I tried out the fixes mentioned in the support database after someone pointed them out to me---they didn't work. I did get it down to a problem with recognizing the boot device (/dev/hda1).
You can restore the superblock with "lilo -u" (uninstall LILO). This assumes you did not corrupt the superblock backup saved by LILO as /boot/boot.0301
So I booted on to a Windoze boot floppy, figuring I would just do a "fdisk /MBR" to return to the original state. But, MY C DRIVE DISAPPEARED!!! I ran FDISK and it just says that the filesystem type for the first partition (C drive) is "unknown". Then from Linux, I ran Yast, which under partition info says the filesystem type for /dev/hda1 is "MS-Dos blah blah" (just like my D-drive which is fine), but when I choose a mount point (/dosc) and exit yast, it tells me that it can't mount /dev/hda1. It just says:
RomperRoom:/home/chris # mount /dosc mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems
So then I type:
RomperRoom:/home/chris # dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 dumpe2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 dumpe2fs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dosc Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
So, it's seemingly hosed. What happened? ANY HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED
thanks in advance,
chris -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v
/dev/hda1 is not an ext2 filesystem I assume. The mount command sometimes has problems autodetecting the correct filesystem type (when module stacks need to be loaded as it is with DOS), so try explicitly given the type: mount -tmsdos /dev/hda1 /dosc - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>