On Fri August 4 2006 18:29, dg wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:20, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix > > or other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns "bad > > superblock." The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a Scrabble > > disc for Windoze. Same with file -s; reads Scrabble fine, but barfs on > > the knoppix. Any hints or pointers on where on the lap's gentoo system > > to look for the difference in behaviour greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Can you read (without mounting) knoppix cd on the laptop with something > like dd if=<your_cd_device> of=/dev/null ?
No. But it's getting weird. I tried mounting a straight data disc - the gentoo package one - and it mounted fine. So, I thought maybe the problem was just with bootable discs. Trying file -s, the system froze. I rebooted. Now, I have no /dev/hdc at all and lost /dev/dsp, too. So, something's wrong with udev. It seems my entire system is crumbling. I'd commit the heresy of reinstalling if I could boot off a CD. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
