Have you tried booting with the default 2.4.3 Mandrake kernel? I was using
the Freq kernel for a while, but I found it too buggy and went back to the
default one.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:02, Terry Smith wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with
> Win98).
>
> I left my machine at work running overnight. When I came in this morning
> it had died and when I attempted to reboot I've got a 'kernel panic'
> message driven by an inability to mount the root fs (reiser). This means
> I can't use 'failsafe' or anything else in lilo.
>
> Here's the particulars:
>
> LM 8.0 June Freq Update: includes kernel 2.4.5, gnome 1.4, kde 2.2alpha,
> etc. Been working fine (for a week or so).
>
> Machine: Micron w/PII @ 480 mhz, 64 mg RAM, 10 gig drive, etc.
>
> Filesystem: Reiser FS on all partitions except Swap. I've been using
> Reiser on everything but swap for the last 6 months. No problems.
>
> I don't have a boot floppy (coulnd't make one on this installation. do
> have a boot floppy at home but my drives at home are partitioned
> slightly differently [windoze has drives c and d so linux starts at
> hda3; here they start with hda2]).
>
> My 'official' LM CDs with the update are at home as well.
>
> I can drag these things in tomorrow.
>
> In checking the Reiser website I see that there is a Reiser analog to
> fsck - reiserfsck - I'm assuming it's installed but how do I use it if I
> can't access the drive???
>
> Clearly I can reinstall and reformat the partitions but I'll lose
> everything. I could reformat only / and hopefully recover /home (which
> is Reiser) where all the 'good stuff' is.
>
> But is there some way to run 'reiserfsck' if I can boot from a floppy?
>
> Anybody have some clever idea(s)?
>
> TIA.
>
> Terry Smith
> Woods Hole, MA
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