Interesting Situation

TheWhiteKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: Interesting Situation

While I might not be the most fluent person when it comes to installing Gentoo on a PC, but I have done so a few times with zero to minor problems. This is one that I can't figure out however. I finished configuring GRUB and everything looks good. It boots up with no problems, but when it starts initializing the filesystem for ROOT I get the following 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 something else), then the superblock is corrupt. and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:

e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Ok. Here is the thing. I have setup both the BOOT and ROOT as ext3 filesystem (I tried ReiserFS for the BOOT, but it had a slight attitude and I got tired of trying to get it to work.) I have zero ext2 filesystems on the computer that I am building / configuring, so I am at a loss here. I double and triple checked my configuration files and everything seems to be in proper order. I am going to try the e2fsck but I highly doubt it will work. Did I happen to over look something? The kernel that I am using is 2.6.16-r9 and the newest portage package. I have no idea why I setup the filesystem for ext3 and it is trying to read it as a ext2.

Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

- Josh

papaf · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject:

Err, sorry if I hit something obvious here, but /dev/ROOT makes no sense. The ROOT word should be changed into whatever devices actually the root filesystem resides onto, eg hda1.

Sorry if you've already done that...

Fabio

htranou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 96

Maybe a fstab overwritten by an inattentive etc-update ?

thorpe · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:

Post your /etc/fstab.
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Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

See if this thread helps:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-2104.html

TheWhiteKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

FSTAB as follows:

/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev, nosuid, noexec 0 0

nixnut · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
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