Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system

[Stew Benedict]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am trying to install 9.1 ppc on an Ibook.  The installation went fine, 
> despite some problems with bootstrap (I created an Applet boot partition or 
> something like that).  
> 
> When I try to boot the ibook, I first get a menu 
> 
> linux (l)
> cdrom (c)
> openfirmware (o)
> 
> If I choose ¨l¨ yaboot comes out.  When boot finally tries to load the kernel, 
> the following error message comes out:
> 
> hd:8,/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk: unknown or corrupedt filesystem.
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 

My guess is you setup the bootstrap mounted at /boot.  For some reason 
quite a few folks are inclined to do this.  The kernel path for /boot part 
of "/" would be hd:8,/boot/vmlinuz....

Bootstrap partition should never be one of the mount points.

Most folks I've helped on IRC are able to recover from this by booting 
rescue and fixing the yaboot.conf.

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Stew Benedict

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