My computer fails fsck and won't boot

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

My computer has been functioning almost perfect for several days on Gentoo. I wanted to see if I could get my card reader with a memorystick to work and rebooted my computer with it in. Now my computer won't boot I get the following.

elzbal · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:43 pm Post subject:

It looks like the auto-fsck is passing a bad parameter. What happens when you type the root password and run fsck manually? If that doesn't work, try booting with the Gentoo install CD and running fsck manually from there.

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Entering the root password and attempting fsck for my boot drive (hda1) seems good, but when I do fsck on hda3 my root partition is says not implemented yet. (my boot partition is ext3, while my root partition is reiserfs.) I don't know what luck I would have anyways, as everything that I do with my drives tells me that they are mounted as read only.

Using the Gentoo CD; fsck.ext3 tells me everything is OK for my /boot
fsck.reiserfs on hda3 says no corruptions found.

If this fsck.reiserfs is indeed passing an invalid function is there some file I can edit that can change the function or remove the fsck all together?

Thanks

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I have gotten my computer to boot by loading the gentoo live cd, chrooting to my hda3, and emerge unmerge progsreiserfs.

I still see an error in the booting where it attempts to run the fsck.reiserfs.

Preferably I would like to have my system succesfully complete the reiserfs checks on its own.

How do I get it to succesfully run fsck.reiserfs?

elzbal · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 12:00 am Post subject:

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Should I be worried that it will cause the same problem that it caused me the last time I installed it? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from passing that incorrect '-a' command?

elzbal · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 1:15 am Post subject:

Hmm... looking more closely (now that I am at home and not at work), fsck.reiserfs does support the -a option. I have no idea why it would have been complaining about it before...

Note that my fsck.reiserfs usage information looks a lot different from yours.

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Perhaps the difference comes from me having emerged progsreiserfs (which was a dependancy of qtparted, which I don't really need anyway) as opposed to reiserfsprogs. I will try emerging the latter (with my fingers crossed) and see where I go from there.

I'll let you know how that goes...
Thanks

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

having emerged reiserfsprogs I now have a system that successfully checks the filesystem at boot. I'm not sure what the difference between reiserfsprogs and progsreiserfs is, but (qtparted be dammed :-)

I finally have a pretty boot sequence.

Thanks for showing me your screen output... that was the clue that I needed

You guys are unbelievably helpful.

thanks again,
Steve

sundarx · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Posts: 8 Location: California

I have _exactly_ the same problem! I also emerged qtparted...but can you please tell me how do I chroot to my root directory :oops:

and run emerge unmerge?

Thanks!

MOS-FET · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:12 am Post subject:

hello, i got the exact same problem too - i also have qtparted installed. this is how you can chroot into your system:

1. boot from your gentoo live cd
2. mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo where "x" is your partition that contains the root file system
3. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash - this will chroot you into the mounted root partition using bash as shell.

tom

sundarx · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Posts: 8 Location: California

Thanks, I tried and it worked!

Can the qtparted ebuild be modified to include a warning when
installing progsreiserfs? Should I go ahead and file a bug?

- Sundarx

alchemst · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Missouri, US

FYI: its not just qtparted that'll mess you up. parted has the same dependancy problem.

cameronbraid · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 2

I emerged parted and qtparted, then tried to resize my root (reiserfs) partition. I couldn't resize it because it was mounted.

I then rebooted to the GRP CD1 boot disk, which contains parted.

I ran parted, extended my partiton, and rebooted to find that the fsck.reiserfs program had been replaced by the one from the sys-fs/progsreiserfs package.

I managed to hack the /etc/init.d/checkboot and /etc/init.d/checkroot scripts to stop the fsck command from being executed.

Then I unmerged the sys-fs/progsreiserfs package, and re-emerged the sys-fs/reiserfsprogs.

I also had to delete and recreate the soft link from /sbin/fsck.reiserfs to /sbin/reiserfsck. Even though it appeared correct :

cameronbraid · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 2

I also wanted to add another idea to help people, as an alternate to booting with the GRP cd.

The hack that I mention above can be executed when the system tries to boot, and fails when executing the checkroot script.

After the (dodgy/ols) fsck proggy is executed from checkroot :

1. You will be prompted to enter root password for maintenance or CRTL-D for normal boot.
2. If you hit ctrl-d you are rebooted, so enter the root password.
3. you will need to remount your root partition with read/write

darrylbleau · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

Just thought I'd add a 'me too'.

Had this same problem, thought for a few seconds that perhaps my hd died. Then I realized it was something stupid. Lynxed to this forum, found this thread, fixed it up quick :)

I hope this gets fixed somehow... it's a 'showstopper' I think.

sarcaman · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 17

Just wanted to add another me too.

Scratched my head for a while on this, but as usual gentoo forums fixed it

Thanks guys!