Yes, I know - but unfortunately what I was trying to do was "fdisk /dev/hda" -- that is, view the partition table. The fact that /dev/hda was unreadable even at that point is what made me question the drivers.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Quoting Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. > > > > try "fsck /dev/hda4". hda is a drive. You can't fsck a drive, only a > partition with a filesystem. hda4 is a partition, hopefully with a > filesystem still on it. > > HTH, > Jeffrey > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
