filesystem check

andyfaeglasgow · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 170

Whilst booting for the first time, a notice telling me that something was wrong with the root filesystem appears then it offers me the chance to fix as root, or continue to log in.

I thought the problem may be that I specified the wrong filesystem for the root device in etc/fstab, so I made the appropriate change in this file, then rebooted.

However, the same notice appeared again. When I checked fstab, it was there with the modifications I had made after the first boot up.

Can you suggest anything else that should be changed before rebooting?

andy

inode77 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

Post your "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and your grub.conf and we'll try to figure it out. (I think you set one of your device pathes wrong. Or the root fs entry. In grub (hd0,4) points to /dev/hda5.

Post update: And please post that error exactly please.

Minox · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

Hi,
what filesystem do you use? Generally you could try a fsck.ext3 /dev/hdax (e.g).
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andyfaeglasgow · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 170

Hi inode,

Error meassage:
fsck: No such file.../dev/ROOT/dev/ROOT
The superblock could noto be read or does not describe correct ext filesystem

grub.conf:

inode77 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

Ok this is easy fixed, you just forgot to adapt your /etc/fstab to your situation. Boot the livecd once more, mount the /dev/hda to /mnt/gentoo and edit the fstab file. It should look similar to this. (Adapted the values for you, so it should work fine.)

andyfaeglasgow · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 170

Hi inode,

Yes that's what I thought too but when I tried it, I came up with the same error.

Did you notice how it said /dev/ROOT/dev/ROOT in the error message? Is that where it should be looking for the rooroot?

thechris · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 1203

and you are 100% sure this is /mnt/gentoo/etc/fdisk (HDD) and not /etc/fdisk (liveCD)?

andyfaeglasgow · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 170

inode77 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject:

Maybe genkernel messed something up.....
When the kernel should switch over to real_root, that's where I guess something gone wrong. (Just guessing....)

Try to compile a minimal kernel by hand (just basic support stuff and fs drivers no initrd). Then add it to /boot adapt grub.conf and try to boot with it.

Minox · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

Hi,
He must have edited the wrong fstab.