Root Filesystem corrupt

mart_man00 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 245

help!!!!!!!!!! my root is corrupt!!!!

i was installing gentoo linux and after serveral hours it was finally done compiling, but i forgot to run lilo. so i just boot from the cd and tried to mount root, but i cant!!! i get that the superblock couldnt be read. i tried running fsck but nothing. i really need some help here!!!

phong · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:03 am Post subject:

First, be sure you're mounting the correct partition. Also, try explicitly choosing the filesystem type when mounting (i.e. say "mount -t [whatever] /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo" or whichever partition you're mounting, and [whatever] is the filesystem of the partition).
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mart_man00 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 245

i did and i still get errors. i just cant seem to mount it. is there anything i can do? it took a really long time to compile and install

davoid · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 5:13 am Post subject:

I had the inspiration of installing grub into the first 512 bytes of my root partition... nobody complained but I fscked up the superblock. Good thing XFS is such a great filesystem and I could recover using xfs_check. It had copies of the superblock at strategic places on the disk so recovrery was a complete success.
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