On Saturday 17 April 2004 09:58 pm, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
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Hey all
I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help.
i am running suse 9.0 (kde3.2) on an ext3 partion. I was dual booting on the 60gig hard drive with 25gig for suse 1gig for swap and winxp on the rest. I decided that I no longer needed the windows stuff so I had a friend who had ghost 8.0. I figured I could have him ghost the partition ~ for me, I could reformat the HD and remove windows. I was with him during the imaging, and it seemed to go fine. I reformted the drive and had him restore the image. The old partition was 25gig in which 13gig was used. After the repartition I had about 50gigs (He left the image on a fat32 fat partition) Then the s**t hit the fan!!! When we restored the image it seemed fine until I tried to reboot, I knew GRUB would be gone so I booted with my original boot disk into install and then repair system, expert->repair boot loader. It said I didn't have a root drive.. Hmm.. When I ran the scan it said my ext2 was corrupt. So I booted a rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% noncontigous. Unfortunatly my friend is an expert on windows and not linux, so he doesn't know what to do. I searched the archives and google and couldn't find anything (I could have missed it of course) The ghost documentation and knowledge base aren't any help.. I will trying again tomorrow.
Please help me rescue my suse... any ideas, pointers or anything would be appreciated...
First question: You removed a partition (or two or three).... did you rework your /etc/fstab to account for the changes in partition numbers? The reason you may not have had / was because it was looking for / on the old partition number and now you've moved it. Boot a rescue disk and go in and look around... and change fstab to also mount / as ext2. You probably have lost your journal for ext3. (all of this assuming that what you did after the boot didn't destroy everything. I would restore the partition first.)
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