[H-GEN] Arrrrghh!

[Daehenoc]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Daehenoc wrote:
> 
> > MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
> > ...and doesn't start.
> 
> Logical partitions get renumbered when one is removed, so try /dev/hda6 as
> the boot partition perhaps.
> 
> Probably should boot off a floppy in case /etc/fstab causes problems
> during boot as a result of partitions being renamed (likely).

O.K. - I've booted off the debian cdrom and figured out (from the help)
that at the boot: prompt that you can type
boot: root=/dev/hda6
which is where the linux fs is stored. Unfourtounatley it chokes on
loading the swap-space:

Activating swap...

Umm - I can get to the hdd by booting off the cdrom - and instead of
specifying where the root partition is, I can mount the root fs on /mnt
after booting off the cdrom. How do I re-run lilo after editing the
lilo.conf file to reflect the changes?

> > Now, I don't think that I did anything to the superblock - unless NT4
> > server setup maliciously searched out and destroyed it without my
> > knowledge (allegedly!) - can anybody tell me how to fix this? Please?
> 
> Assuming there is damage to the superblock, it is important to be aware of
> the following procedure for superblock recovery:
> 
> Boot off a boot floppy and force a fsck.  If it fails, then do a fsck
> using an alternative superblock.  To do this, use fsck -b 8193.
> alternative copies of the superblock are kept in each block s where
> s = 8192n+1,  n= 1,2,3...
> 
> So do a fsck -b 8193, then fsck -b 16385,etc until u get one that works or
> you run out of superblock copies.

Cool - I think that the superblock is fine, however...

> Cheers,
> 	-Robert

Greg Vickers

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." - Ghandi.


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