I have attached fstab. It has the paritions configured with root = /dev/dha7 ext3, which is correct. I ran the e2fsck (because it said that is had been over 12000 days since the last test, due to not resetting the clock), and it reported no problems, 1.1% fragmentation. What should I be using instead of devfs? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version >> boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load >> the root filesystem. > > You shouldn't use devfs. It's obsolete. Which liveCD / stage are you > installing from? Which profile are you using? > >> warning, no fsck.ext3 found. >> Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little >> different wording), Bad superblock, etc >> type cntrl-D to cancel, or enter root passwd to fix: >> and it is frozen (no keyboard recognised) >> There is a copy of fsck.ext3 on /sbin/, so I think that it is not in >> the initrd. Any ideas on how to fix this? > > Is /dev/hda7 an ext2 partition? Are you sure you have your partition > numbering right and that your fstab reflects your partition layout? > > -Joe > -- > gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list could this be caused by my PRAM battery being DEAD (is says the year is 1904) thanks, nick Also, I configured in both EXT2 and EXT3 kernel support...
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.18.4.1 2005/01/31 23:05:14 vapier Exp $ # # noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail / tail freely. # # See the manpage fstab(5) for more information. # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda7 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
