could we ask to have you quote instead of send attachments to the mail list, and ask that you keep the questions and answers in the open. it would seem to me, that way we could all learn from the problems and answers that way thanks On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:57, Randy Kramer wrote: > Colin, > > Sridhar made a good point that is appropriate to check out. Perhaps > your problem is like the one I had just a few days ago. > > Civileme sent me some instructions to fix it. This is a note I sent > back to him with some additional notes / questions. I will also forward > my original note which described the problem. > > Good luck! > Randy Kramer > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:16:27 -0400 > From: Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; U) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ... > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > civileme, > > Wonderful -- thank you! It appears I am back in business with no > problems. > > I plan to archive your instructions on my wiki (initially my private > wiki, and later on my public wiki, WikiLearn, when it is up and > running). > > A few notes / questions: (The notes are mostly for my records.) > > 1. I actually started the install with the intent of running it until > the partitions were displayed so I could see which was my / partition. > I could not display the partition table -- I forget exactly what stopped > me. But, neither did I cause any additional damage, AFAICT. > > 2. While following your procedure I followed a trial and error approach > -- I tried mounting the partition I thought was /, then tried the > chroot. It worked when I tried /dev/hda4 (which clearly was my / > partition). > > 3. I now know why you suggested cat -- less won't work. > > 4. I followed the mke2fs procedure. It gave me what might be some > useful information, all of which I did not write down. I did note that > it made superblock backups at 32,768, 98,304, and 163,840. > > Q: If this happened again, would it be worth trying the e2fsck -b > command against one of those superblock backups? > > 5. When I tried the reboot command nothing happened. (I wasn't sure it > was a command, so when nothing happened after 15 seconds, I rebooted > manually.) I should have tried shutdown -r now, or maybe /sbin/reboot. > > Thanks again! This is wonderful! If you have any problem with me > putting this post on my twiki or WikiLearn, let me know. In any event, > the intent would be someday to rewrite as just a factual micro HOWTO, on > WikiLearn. > > regards, > Randy Kramer > > civileme wrote: > > OK boot with the boot CD > > > > Hit F1 and typr "rescue" without the quotes > > > > when the root prompt for the rescue system comes up > > > > # mount /(your / partition's actual disk partiton like /dev/hda6) /mnt > > # chroot /mnt > > # mount /usr > > > > You now are in root mode and have access to your editors, at least the > > non-graphic ones. > > > > # cat /etc/fstab > > Either make note of what partition /home2 would be mounted to or make > > note of the line and fire up emacs with emacs /etc/fstab and comment it > > out. or do what is said below. > > > > # mke2fs (partition where /home2 is mounted) > > > > # sync > > # reboot > > > > Take iut your rescue CD and let it boot
