SUSE 10.0 boot problems
Hi all, After some electric power supply problems leading to several hard reboot, my test Suse Linux servers fails at rebooting. It holds some data I would like to recover. The error message at normal booting reads: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda2 hda2 is a plain old disk where some problems could be expected. Please, before messing in the problem without a clear idea about how Linux deals with this issues, could you post me in the right direction to work out this problem and bring up again the computer? I'm guessing I could address the problem by removing the disk, I've not tried that, but is there any option not implying plugin/unplugging components? Just trying to learn from my own errors and problems! Thanks for your help. Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management
On Thursday 19 October 2006 22:40, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
Please, before messing in the problem without a clear idea about how Linux deals with this issues, could you post me in the right direction to work out this problem and bring up again the computer?
Set your bios to boot from the CDrom/DVD and put the install disk in. Boot into recovery mode from the CD/DVD and fsck the drive or reiserfsck as the case may be. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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