Filesystem failures on bootup.

[mashysteria]

Hey guys, I'm new to linux and gentoo, and I'm having problems after the first reboot into the new system. I get to "checking root filesystem..." and I get the error "fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/root /dev/root: the superblock could not be 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 superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock" then it gives me "filesystem couldn't be fixed "

Anyone have any suggestions? I thought I followed the handbook correctly, I setup the system exactly like the book said. I guess maybe I overlooked something. Like I said I'm new to gentoo and linux, so I'm trying to figure out what happend and why. I was hopeing maybe I could save the system and not have to format and recompile everything.

Thanks,
the noob.

[NathanZachary]

Well, what I would recommend doing is booting up the installation disc and chrooting back into your installation environment. If you don't know how to do that, please just ask. Then I would run fdisk to see your current partition scheme. In that scheme it will tell you each partition and the corresponding filesystems. Please post that output. Again, if you need any help with any of those steps, please just ask.
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[davascript]

Did you try to run fsck on your root partition? Boot to the livecd and run

[neiljw]

[mashysteria]

I tried chroot, but it gave the error "chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash': no such file or directory.

So I tried running Fdisk, here it is,

/dev/hda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap/ Solaris
/dev/hda3 69 6294 50010345 83 Linux

And fsck /dev/hda3 gives me,

/dev/hda3 clean, 226105/6258688 files, 720611/12502586 blocks

[davascript]

Boot to the livecd and mount your drives. It could be /etc/fstab. Please post the output of

[mashysteria]

ok so I think I know where I messed up. so far it looks like fstab shows the incorrect fs type. my / is ext2, but the fstab says its ext3. so I think if I change it, it should work maybe?

[mashysteria]

nevermind, that didn't work, so I think maybe I should start all over again?

[davascript]

Nah dont start over. Post the above commands.
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[Zeerak]

i'm having the same issues, i'll look at it and try what you guys suggested as well.

[mashysteria]

ok so here is what I got to he above code:

cat /etc/fstab

<fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/boot /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/root / ext2 noatime 0 1
/dev/swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0

grep EXT3 /usr/src/linux/.config

config_ext3_fs=y
config_ext3_fs_xattr=y
config_ext3_fs_posix_acl=y
#config_ext3_fs_security is not set
#config_ext3_fs_xip is not set

Anyway of telling what I messed up?

[NathanZachary]

Hi,

Your fstab is wrong. It needs to be something like this:

[mashysteria]

thankyou all very much for your help, I was able to correct the problems and login. Now its time to start compiling and getting everything else working. I'm sure I'll need more help.

[NathanZachary]

Well please don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it. That's why we're here.
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