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John Andersen<jsa@pen.homeip.net> 20/10/2006 10:11 >>> On Friday 20 October 2006 00:03, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote: Please, could you explain why I can not start from CD? Is it a problem related with the installation media?

Never seen that one before. Are you sure its the correct Disk? I don't have my SLES9 disk set here to check which one works for me. Is this 64bit or 32bit? (Might make a difference as to which cd/dvd to use).

Note that almost any Linux Boot cd or Live CD should do the trick because all you want to do is get into single user mode and run some fsck tasks on hda2

It has taken me longer than expected to learn how to boot a box from a LiveCD and submit a fsck! I've been not able to find and understand this sudo -i command until a couple of hours ago. Uff, I've to catch up with Linux! Here the output of the command: root@ubuntu:~# fsck /dev/hda2 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/hda2 Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes ########### reiserfsck --check started at Wed Oct 25 18:18:35 2006 ########### Replaying journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda2' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree../ 1 (of 3)/ 6 (of 137)/ 37 (of 128)bad_leaf: block 5079206, items 11 and 12: The wrong order of items: [14 81775 0x0 SD (0)], [14 81775 0x81000000000001 DRCT (2)] finished Comparing bitmaps..finished Fatal corruptions were found, Semantic pass skipped 1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree ########### reiserfsck finished at Wed Oct 25 18:19:51 2006 ########### It seems I'm in troubles with this partition. Please, before submitting fsck with the proposed switch, is there any consideration I must take into account? It will be great to recover a MySQL database stored in this partition. It helds a wiki and even though I can recover the final state of the documents, I will lose their history if I lose the database. Thanks for your help. Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management