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daevasa
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 Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: um my super block is corrupt. [SOLVED] |
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this is my first time *really* installing a linux system, i say really because i have used the ubuntu graphical install thing, but i don't even count ubuntu as an accomplishment, because i didn't learn anything from it. </off-topic>
everything is fine really, until it comes to "checking root file system"
where it gives me the following
| Code: | fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3:
The superblock could not bee read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the super block is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
filesystem couldn't be fixed :(
Give root password for maintenance |
so i typed
| Code: | | e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda3 |
and it just repeats the above message
Maybe i'm just not doing it right, but any help would be greatly appreciated, let me know if you need more information
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when you did mkfs, you did mkfs.ext3 (or mkfs.ext2 -j), right?
is the partition table correct?
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daevasa,
Welcome to Gentoo.
Your superblock is fine, root is mounted. The problem is that you have told /etc/fstab that root is an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda3 when its something else, like reiserfs or /dev/hda3. This makes the fsck
Give the root password so you can look around.
Do what sd nodes do you have ?
Do l what hd nodes do you have ?
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daevasa
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there are no nodes on sd*, in fact no sd*, but there are hda hda1 hda2 hda3 and hdac
sooo... how am i to fix this? |
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post your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst (if you're on grub)
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daevasa
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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fstab:
| Code: | /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 |
when i tried to open /boot/grub/menu.lst it said new file, also no /boot/grub directory. |
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daevasa,
You either remake your kernel to use the libata drivers (thats the right way) or ...
change your /etc/fstab to use /dev/hd... in place of /dev/sd... and change your grub.conf to use /dev/hda3 in place od /dev/sda3. (thats the easy way)
I would go with the easy way for now and see what happens with your disk data rate. If its ok, there is nothing wrong with using the old IDE drivers.
Mount your partitions and get into your chroot to do the changes
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| thank you! my system now boots and i think i can handle it now |
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