This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20 to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine -- at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4 which holds / . fsck says "bad superblock" and drops into single-user mode with an instruction to fix the problem manually and reboot. Oddly enough, though, even fdisk /dev/hda says "Unable to open /dev/hda" -- so the block device itself isn't visible, even though that's the device that was booted from.
My top candidate right now is that the driver for the disk (IDE, I assume) was accidentally left out of the new kernel, or was loaded as a model. Any other suggestions for what the problem might be are welcome. Finally, short of reloading the OS from scratch, any advice on how I might rescue it? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
