quoth Condon Thomas A KPWA: | 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.
i had something similar when i went from 7.2 to 8.2 -- removed the old drive and when the install went fubar, old drive wouldn't work anymore. really weird. | 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. i think you're making a mistake in reading the instructiuons here. give the root password and then run reiserfsck /dev/hdX, where X is the / partition. *then* you can mount r/w. the same confusion can result from the ambigious instructions when plain old e2fsck is called for. i think that if you try that, you may achieve success. | 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? yup -- but first, try running reiserfsck without mounting the drive r/w. -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
