On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:37, Ryan Bowman wrote:
> Running Gentoo, / partition is reiserfs, I used qtparted to try and enlarge the 
> partition a little bit, which resulted in a severely screwed up partition.  Used 
> reiserfsch --rebuild-tree which supposedly fixed everything, but when I rebooted the 
> kernel panic, it said it couldn't find init...Where's init?  How do I find it? How 
> do I tell the kernel where it is?

I had a similar problem to that one and I had to to the rebuildtree
thing as well. You might as well pop in a knoppix CD, find/save your
data and reinstall. It fubar'd my system by renaming all of the
directories with numeric names. That's why it can't find init. The paths
aren't correct anymore. I had to search through them to find my files
(they were still there and had their names but I had to find them in the
numeric directories). I love ReiserFS on my Mandrake box and it has
never caused me any problems but a week into running Gentoo with
ReiserFS it blew up on me. I switched to ext3 for the Gentoo box and it
hasn't had problems since. YMMV. Good luck recovering your data. As long
as you have a spare partition or network connection working under
knoppix it just takes a few minutes with "find" to find all of your
files.

-- 
Michael Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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