[opensuse] Major boot problem
Hi all, The other day I switched on my computer in the morning and waited for the oS 11.4 to start (the other system on it is Win XP). The bootsplash screen disappearad and then lines of text were printed on the screen. After a while a prompt appeared telling me to give my root password. I typed it, but it was not accepted. Repeated the boot sequence a couple of times, but to no avail. Finally I chose Failsafe from the GRUB menu and somehow I could get some response from the system. It turned out that I was in / directory and nothing else was mounted. This morning I found the 11.4 install CD and thught I would refresh or reinstall the system. Refresh did no change, I still could not boot into the system. The fresh instaal insisted to format even the /home directory, which I really do not want. Additionaly It told me that it is not posibble to mount some volumes - there are 3 HDDs in the computer. The only thing I want to preserve is my home directory. Could anybody help me how to advance? Many thanks: Albert Oszko ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
The other day I switched on my computer in the morning and waited for the oS 11.4 to start (the other system on it is Win XP). The bootsplash screen disappearad and then lines of text were printed on the screen. After a while a prompt appeared telling me to give my root password. I typed it, but it was not accepted. Repeated the boot sequence a couple of times, but to no avail. Finally I chose Failsafe from the GRUB menu and somehow I could get some response from the system. It turned out that I was in / directory and nothing else was mounted. This morning I found the 11.4 install CD and thught I would refresh or reinstall the system. Refresh did no change, I still could not boot into the system. The fresh instaal insisted to format even the /home directory, which I really do not want. Additionaly It told me that it is not posibble to mount some volumes - there are 3 HDDs in the computer.
The only thing I want to preserve is my home directory.
Could anybody help me how to advance?
It would help if you let us know what appears on the screen at boot: any error messages, other than the mounting problem? Can you see the hard disc drives in the BIOS? If not, it's a good guess you have a physically damaged HDD. If you can see them, and you have access to a second computer, you could try installing the HDDs in there, and see if you can mount them and retrieve the content in /home. For accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems from Windows, see here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ If your /home directory is on only one of the HDDs (or do you have a RAID/LVM setup?), then you can remove that disc, and reinstall on one of the other two, then reinsert your /home disc and update /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. Hope this helps! Haro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Dear Haro, All threee HDDs are listed in BIOS and apper at the beginning of the boot sequence. I try to copy a few messges displayed upon bootup: doing fast boot FATAL: Module ata-piix not found Fatal: Error running install command for ata-piix Fatal: Module ide_pcigeneric not found Creating device nodes with udev fb_ conflicting fb hw usage radeonrmfb vs VESA VGA removing ge Trying manual resume from /dev/disk---(tht 80G Samsung HDD) -part 6 Afterwards it complins that it could not run FSCK and suggests to run it manuall with given options. For this tha login as root would be necessary, but cannot login as rott. I will read the link you mentioned. I use at the moment an old WIn XP machine in another room. regards: OszkoA
It would help if you let us know what appears on the screen at boot: any error messages, other than the mounting problem?
Can you see the hard disc drives in the BIOS? If not, it's a good guess you have a physically damaged HDD. If you can see them, and you have access to a second computer, you could try installing the HDDs in there, and see if you can mount them and retrieve the content in /home. For accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems from Windows, see here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
If your /home directory is on only one of the HDDs (or do you have a RAID/LVM setup?), then you can remove that disc, and reinstall on one of the other two, then reinsert your /home disc and update /etc/fstab to mount it at boot.
Hope this helps! Haro
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Huhh, I realized that the z and y keys might be interchanged (Hungarian desktop). And they were indeed changed. So I could type in my root passwd and ran fsck manually (without -a or -p options as suggested by the computer). And finally I could boot into the system. Regards, OszkoA ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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