ReiserFS Problem
Condon Thomas A KPWA
tcondon
Mon May 17 11:55:34 PDT 2004
Folks,
I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary
desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB
EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 while
adding an additional NIC and a 250GB EIDE drive. So I carefully saved some
data and shut down normally. I disconnected the old boot disk to insure
nothing could happen to it. I had troubles booting off the new disk, so I
re-connected the old disk to boot from it.
No luck. The reiserfs is showing problems. The error message asks for the
root password to allow me to repair it and says it is mounted read only, so
it shows how to mount it r/w so I can run reiserfsck and fix it. I try
that. Can't run portions of the fix/test if it is mounted read/write. So I
tried it in read only mode. It can't run other portions of the test/fix if
it is read only. Neither way can complete the fix of the disk so it will
boot or is even usable.
BIOS recognizes the disk. The /boot partition is ext2, the / partition is
reiserfs.
I'm open to suggestions.
At work now, so I can't test this, but I suspect that I should have popped
in my Knoppix CD and gotten it up and running and used it to fix the hard
drive. Does that sound feasible?
There may be a more severe hardware problem (see following plea for help).
In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,
Tom ;-})
Tom Condon
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