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FireGecko
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 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: Ext3fs Error on Gentoo startup |
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Hi,
I'm new to Gentoo, and I've installed it for tests on my old Pentium III Laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook S Series).
The installation went well (excepting the minor problem with the Config files that needed updating).
But now that I've started Gentoo for the first time, I get the following error.
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fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/ROOT
/dev/ROOT:
The superblock could not be read or 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:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
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I don't know if this is relevant, but according to my /etc/fstab, the ROOT-Filesystem is ext3, so what am I supposed to do with e2fsck ?
What can I do against this problem (so I can finally use Gentoo, and I didn't waste an entire weekend) ?
Greetings,
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Habbit
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Most probably you didn't edit your /etc/fstab file as instructed. /dev/ROOT is not a valid block device, you need to substitute "ROOT" for your root's partition device path. Example: /dev/sdb6 for my Gentoo root partition on 2nd logical partition (6) of the 2nd SATA/SCSI hard drive (sdb).
Same thing goes for /dev/SWAP. And again, the default /etc/fstab file is just a pattern. If it says "ext3" there but your root partition is reiserfs (as is mine), ext2, xfs, jfs or whatever, you need to put it right.
Your system boots because the kernel does not use /etc/fstab to locate its root partition: the root= kernel command line option does that, but other filesystems (like your swap) do fail to automatically mount if their /etc/fstab is missing or bad.
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NathanZachary
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Please post the contents of /etc/fstab. Habbit is probably correct about that being the cause of the problem. If you post the file, it will be much easier to show you the problem.
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nixnut
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
Moved in favour of https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-2104.html
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