Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Huub
Huub wrote: Hi, Using Suse 10.1, I had a spontaneous reboot after which I got a fast running screen full of reiserfs messages. Another (inflicted) reboot and Grub gives error 17, meaning it cannot mount a recognized partition. Using the boot-dvd, I selected Rescue, and logged in as root but I

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Thursday 21 September 2006 09:57, Huub wrote: Hi, Using Suse 10.1, I had a spontaneous reboot after which I got a fast running screen full of reiserfs messages. Another (inflicted) reboot and Grub gives error 17, meaning it cannot mount a recognized partition. Using the

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Huub
being booted off boot-dvd, please, run reiserfsck for partitions which were formatted as reiserfs and let us see reiserfsck' output. fdisk /dev/hdc shows that I have: /dev/hdc1 Linux swap /dev/hdc2 * Linux /dev/hdc3 Linux As I stated in my own response, error 17 means it

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Peter
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:16:26 +0200, Huub wrote: Huub wrote: Hi, Using Suse 10.1, I had a spontaneous reboot after which I got a fast running screen full of reiserfs messages. Another (inflicted) reboot and Grub gives error 17, meaning it cannot mount a recognized partition. Using the

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Thursday 21 September 2006 14:19, Huub wrote: being booted off boot-dvd, please, run reiserfsck for partitions which were formatted as reiserfs and let us see reiserfsck' output. fdisk /dev/hdc shows that I have: /dev/hdc1 Linux swap /dev/hdc2 * Linux

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Huub
yes that should give us a hint whether the problem is in reiserfs or in grub Looks like I can do a clean install. No filesystem or superblock found.

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Thursday 21 September 2006 16:14, Huub wrote: yes that should give us a hint whether the problem is in reiserfs or in grub Looks like I can do a clean install. If there is no important data on the system - this is the easiest way. No filesystem or superblock found. I

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: Two suggestions. 1) I have found that grub files in r3 have to be copied using -o notail on the mount command. If you do not use notail, the files are not able to be read by grub. 2) do not try and create a grub boot while in the

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Peter
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:02:19 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: snip... I'm curious what version of grub caused you to come to these conclusions. Grub has been using the REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK ioctl for ages. It's the same thing lilo uses and causes those files to only use indirect blocks (ie: no

Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub

2006-09-21 Thread Huub
I would guess that you got partition table corruption. You may want to try to fdisk /dev/hdc in the way it was partitioned before. However, boundaries of partitions are to known presizely for that, though. You may also try gpart(8). It does not look at partition table and may find partition