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Fence36
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject: fsck during boot |
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During boot after the first install
I get an error message -
fsck
Couldn't find ext2 super block, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2 Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda
I use ext3 for all linux partitions, here is my partition layout
hda1 windows 98
hda2 fat32 partition
hda3 /boot
hda4 extended
hda5 swap
hda6 /root |
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Fence36
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: addition |
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| Also the boot process stops when it trys to load the service "local" |
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scocou
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Location: Pacific NW, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| The same thing happens to me using development-sources-2.5.59, I get the ext2 (using ext3) errors and a freeze after starting local. Is this the kernel you are using? Usually I can figure messes like this out, but after 2 hours I ended up unmerging the development kernel sources and just using 2.4, until it's straightened out. In case you didn't try yet, I have none of the same problems using gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10. |
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Fence36
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:48 pm Post subject: Kernel Version |
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| Actually, I am using gentoo-sources 2.4.19r10. I was thinking of changing my fs type to reiser. Copying my /root to another partition, reformating, and then moving /root back. Could Possibly work. |
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scocou
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I am using gentoo-sources 2.4.19r10 |
Heehe shows what I know... strange I guess it might not be kernel related then. If you find a solution independant of this forum could you possibly post it here so I can avoid having to recreate this topic? I'd love to boot into that beta kernel and muck about 
| Quote: | | changing my fs type to reiser. Copying my /root to another partition, reformating, and then moving /root back |
Not sure about reiserfs, but I've done this successfully with XFS->ext3 and vice-versa, but I did it a little differently. Instead of cp I found dump/restore (and xfsdump/restore) to pull this off with only a few config edits (ie fstab) once you're done. Will your /boot partition still be ext2/3? It would probably isolate the problem to be ext2/3 specific if you changed both /root and /boot to reiserfs and it worked... I wonder if you couldn't just dd if=/dev/OLD of=/dev/NEW to transport your data, but I'm a noob so who knows... |
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