On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem
> corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope
> it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging
> in the server cupboard yesterday, power to the machine was
> accidentally disconnected.
>
> I have booted with a live CD & run `reiserfsck --fix-fixable` on the
> filesystem, but nevertheless when I attempt to boot the system I get a
> "failed to open the device... no such file or directory" message,
> followed by another error as per subject line.
from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you
edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of
LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok?
Cheers,
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
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