Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

*nixVirgin · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: The UK

Just been installing Gentoo using the 2005.0 Minimal CD and I did a stage 2.
The hardware is a HP DL380 G4, with the internal 6i RAID controller - The Kernel was compiled with the needed support for the 6i controller and my devices were:

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 /boot ext2
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 /swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 /root reiserfs

Grub picked up the drive fine after making the required mapping in device.map, all was looking good so I rebooted and got the grub splash screen - selected the install and it then booted, found a reiserfs file system and then rebooted so I let it boot again and then got a reiserfs error so I booted the 2005.0 cd and ran reiserfsck /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 - errors were found and it advised running --rebuild-tree which I did...

Now after booting the 2005.0 cd and mounting /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 it would seem that I have only a single directory of which is lost+found.....

Have I just lost this mornings work and is it worth re-installing ?
What could have caused this to happen and would the same thing happen
again ?

Of all the Gentoo systems I have built and rebuilt - this is the first
time I have seen this !

Hoping someone can help...

Thanks in advance.

Mal
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

lost+found contains the blocks where an error occured when running fsck. There must have been some pretty big corruption for all your data to have gotten in there (or somethign else went screwball).

I'm not sure exactly what has happened, but if that happened to me I think I would wipe the drive and start again.

EDIT: It seems I became a guru with this post. Let's hope my advice is sound! :lol:

*nixVirgin · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: The UK

thanks for the reply...

i would agree with what your saying - just a bit stunned that it happened...

i just hope it dont happen again - as that would be weird....

ta.
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*nixVirgin · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: The UK

re-installed using a Stage3 and success...

being a little tired after going @ it all day - anyone know what support is needed for a DL380G4 network interface ?

are they intel cards ?

thanks
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nixnut · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

It's a broadcom afaik. You need the Tigon3 driver:

*nixVirgin · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: The UK

thanks for that - i was way too lazy - should not have asked in the first place !

I booting the CD and checked the boot messages last night - but thanks for confirming !
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lyallp · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:39 am Post subject:

He He .. someone did what I did (lol)

They forgot to mount their root device to /mnt/gentoo!!!!

Went on and created their other mount points and mounted their other filesystems in /mnt/gentoo prior to chrooting but the root device was not mounted.

Did thier entire build with all /root files being written to ram, which disappears after reboot!
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*nixVirgin · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: The UK

would the same happen if you forgot to mount /proc ?

thats what I think i did wrong.....

will know for next time ! but i think we have solved what went wrong...

miss 1 little line = lots of coffee and a late night....

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