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jerome187
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: ext2 filesystem problems |
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Heres the error I get on boot
| Code: | | fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb1 |
it then asks for the root password for mantainance mode. When I get in none of my hard disks are reconigzed in /dev, so theres not /dev/hdb1 or anything at all. But I do get onto the filesystem cause all my stuff in /home is still there and everything else. 
I dont really know where to go from there
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| can you print out /etc/fstab ? |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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You wouldn't be running ~x86 and you wouldn't recently have updated baselayout, would you?
I've heard there were some errors in a recent ~x86 version of baselayout, there's a newer version witch should fix that problem... So if you can get that to install...
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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I just tried reïnstalling my system with x86 as opposed to ~x86 and I have the same problem again.
Now I'm really out of ideas...
Anybody got some advice?
The partitions are in order, I can mount the perfectly from the livecd, I've checked them with reiserfsck and they're alright, but I can't get past this bloody error...
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fennec
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | I just tried reïnstalling my system with x86 as opposed to ~x86 and I have the same problem again.
Now I'm really out of ideas...
Anybody got some advice?
The partitions are in order, I can mount the perfectly from the livecd, I've checked them with reiserfsck and they're alright, but I can't get past this bloody error... |
made sure /etc/fstab is intact ? |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| fennec wrote: | | theBlackDragon wrote: | I just tried reïnstalling my system with x86 as opposed to ~x86 and I have the same problem again.
Now I'm really out of ideas...
Anybody got some advice?
The partitions are in order, I can mount the perfectly from the livecd, I've checked them with reiserfsck and they're alright, but I can't get past this bloody error... |
made sure /etc/fstab is intact ? |
It is, both on my new and on the old install.
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody? This is really urgent as I can't get my system to boot properly in this way...
Installing on another partition didn't work as it just gives the same error... 
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blippy
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i have this same error now, and i don't really know how to fix it.
Since I dual boot, I decided i'd go into windows and use LTOOLS to view at my fstab. I click /dec/hdb3 and then try to view the files in the /etc/ directory. ALL I see are these huge red X's, like LTOOLS can't read the files.
All the entries are in this format
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 205 Sat Oct 30 06:38:56 2004 shells
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 1551 Sat Oct 30 06:38:56 2004 inittab
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it seems to say the file name at the end of each line.
the ONLY exception to that is my fstab file
?--------- 0 0 0 Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 1970 fstab
so apparantly, it was made in 1970.......wonderful
Any ideas anyone?
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:44 am Post subject: |
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I managed to figure this out, apparently my /dev files weren't created on boot, when I logged in with recovery console there were no /dev/hdx's around, but when I listed the contents from the livecd there were...
What I did was to mount the partitions directly by using things like this:
| Code: | /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime1 1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 |
I strongly suspect a script from the baselayout package, namely /etc/runlevels/boot/checkroot , I have updated the script but I haven't actually tested if it fixes this behavior, it workds fine with the above fix and I don't feel like breaking it again atm...
hth
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| where did you end up typing that? When you log in and it says give root for maintenace? |
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theBlackDragon
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| blippy wrote: | | where did you end up typing that? When you log in and it says give root for maintenace? |
Sorry, forget to mention that, these are two lines from my /etc/fstab, it now looks like this:
| Code: | # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 02:50:53 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
#/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
#/dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/winC ntfs users,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/winD vfat users,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/other reiserfs noatime,exec,rw 1 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,users,sync 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/usbstick vfat noauto,users,sync 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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