First completion of ppc install, fatal error? fsck.ext2 erro

[Craneology]

Ive searched the forums, and googled. This problem seems to be common, but I havent found a solution so I am using the power of the forum to make an attempt at resolving this issue. Anyways, just completed my first successful(ish) ppc installation (have done quite a few x86 installations, so I have some knowdlege) anyways, just completed it, rebooted (couldnt unmount /mnt/gentoo for some bloody reason, so I just restarted...) so yea, it boots up, kernel loads fine, as far as I could see, then bam loading filesystems presents me with this horrible lock enducing error: fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hda2 /dev/hda2: yadda. My ext2 is my /boot partition, which under the ppc documentation says for mac (this is on a 12" 1ghz powerbook btw) this doesnt need a filesystem or something since it isnt even activated or something, not quite sure now that I think about it. When I do fsck /dev/hda normally, I get the error about the /dev/hda2 been not ext2. Hope this is enough info, currently using links to access the forum so I cant really see what I wrote in a way, anyways thanks for any help that comes along.
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Gentoo on a Powerbook 12" 1ghz with 756mb ram. YEE HAA

[dboli42]

The only advise I can give is to make sure you've compiled support for your root filesystem into the kernel and not as a module, and post your fstab file. You don't need a seperate /boot partition on powerpc, and in truth you don't need it on most x86 machines (I've never needed one at least).

[groen]

h

I also had a problem with what sounds like the same error, telling you to run fdisk...... This didn't work so after another fresh install that failled for the same reason. I installed devfs and bingo, problem solved.

udev is the new way to go from what I have read, but for me devfs still works better.

groen
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tibook 15"
1.0 Ghz G4

[Craneology]

Guess ill try another fresh install and see how it goes with installing those files too. One thing: I havent really done crap with my kernel, operating off a howto (forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-258980.html) which I guess uses an already compiled kernel. Im not the best with kernels, so maybe that is where my initial problem is at?
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Gentoo on a Powerbook 12" 1ghz with 756mb ram. YEE HAA

[groen]

h

Getting the kernel right is a good start , go have a look here http://ppcconfdb.sourceforge.net/ for some examples.

before you do the whole re-install thingy, just boot up with the live cd, chroot to the gentoo partition, mount all that needs to be mounted and then emerge devfs. If need be also re-compile your kernel. This should work and also save you a lot time.

groen
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tibook 15"
1.0 Ghz G4

[nixnut]

Er, could it be that /dev/hda2 is the partition with the bootstrap magic, and so NOT your root partition?
My partition table looks like this:

[Craneology]

Well I do not have a printout of my partition table on hand, but I do recall what they are:

/dev/hda1 Apple bootloader thing (for macosx)
/dev/hda2 the linux bootstrap thing
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/hda4 root
/dev/hda5 macosx

I have no clue why hda2 would want to be accessed, it boots up fine, just loads incorrectly. I tried emerging devfs, bingo, and dev. udev emerged, rest do not exist. If the other two (i know devfs is) are in the kernel, then I guess I need to have a swing at hacking at the kernel.
I have decent experience messing around with an x86 kernel, is it any different with xppc? guess Ill search around and figure that out for myself. Thanks for trying.

** ok just reread the thread and realized that bingo is not a package, but a sign of emotion hehe. Man I should sleep more.
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Gentoo on a Powerbook 12" 1ghz with 756mb ram. YEE HAA

[Craneology]

Ok, so I went ahead and recompiled the kernel; nothing seemed wrong with it in the first place. It supports ext2, and ext3 which are all I need for my system. Anyways, I decided to manipulate my fstab, changing the last two digits in the /dev/hda2 row to 0 0, changed from 1 2. This allows the system to load up, saying some fs failed to load (/dev/hda3). Anyways, so I bypassed that in a way, but when the login: prompt shows, it locks up. WTF? any help would be greatly appreciated. Seems like Gentoo is teasing me now with the login prompt.
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Gentoo on a Powerbook 12" 1ghz with 756mb ram. YEE HAA

[groen]

mmmm running low on ideas here ..... did you install ext2 and ext3 as modules ? if so do they load up when you startup?

groen
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tibook 15"
1.0 Ghz G4

[Craneology]

nope, i decided to build everything directly into the kernel, thus destroying the whole module problem.
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Gentoo on a Powerbook 12" 1ghz with 756mb ram. YEE HAA