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scrooch
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 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject: wont boot after emerging reiserfsprogs |
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I have 1 reiserfs partition at /dev/hda2. This is not only my boot partition, but my root as well. Installation went fine, and it booted also ok. There was just 1 single error during boot, it couldn't find fsck.reiserfs . I haven't paid at this for months, it all just worked fine and had no problems.
Today I wanted to get rid of this error, so I emerged reiserfsprogs which contains that fsck.reiserfs thing. Not my system wont boot anymore. Grub is still fine, and the kernel itself boots ok. Then we get this error:
| Code: | *Checking root filesystem...
fsck 1.33 (21 Apr 2003)
Failed to open the filesystem.
Warning ... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/ROOT exited with signal 6.
* Filesystem coudn't be fixed :(
Give root password for maintainance. or press control D for normal startup |
Coud you please help me out? 
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hensan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like your /etc/fstab might have been overwritten, since fsck should probably be checking /dev/hda2 and not /dev/ROOT.
Boot with the livecd and fix your fstab, hopefully that will fix the problem. |
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TheCoop
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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from the fsck.reiserfs info page:
| Code: | EXIT CODES
reiserfsck uses the following exit codes:
0 - No errors.
1 - File system errors corrected.
4 - File system fatal errors left uncorrected,
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree needs to be launched.
6 - File system fixable errors left uncorrected,
reiserfsck --fix-fixable needs to be launched.
8 - Operational error.
16 - Usage or syntax error. |
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree from a boot disk or something, on the unmounted root filesystem
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scrooch
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the help so far. I checked the reiserfs partition for corruption, but it passed the test with no problems. Also after adding --rebuild-tree or --fix-fixable to reiserfsck the problem remained. Maybe I've got something wrong in my fstab or grub config, because during the boot something is pointing to /dev/ROOT, which doesn't sound right.
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/BOOT /boot reiserfs noauto,noatime,notail 1 1
/dev/ROOT / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0
#/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/VFat vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
#/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 reiserfs users,umask=000 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
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This is what my grub.conf looks like:
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default 0
timeout 1
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=GNU/Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2
title=Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
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TheCoop
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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you need to change ROOT, BOOt and SWAP to your actual partitions
eg, my fstab:
| Code: | # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/backup ext3 noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/dvd iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,user 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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scrooch
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Ah great, that works perfectly Thanks for all the help.
It's kinda stupide though to provide a default fstab file which has these weird /boot and /root
But anyway - thanks!
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ok, first off i want to say im very thankful for this post I have the same prob my fstab was thew default, well i went in and fixed it with nano but it doesnt let me save. it says "could not open file for writing: Read-only File system". What can I do to be able to write?
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