fstab is right on the money along with the others i edited Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernie Schroder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cant boot gentoo
> On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:45 am, Chris wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I rebooted and logged in this afternoon after some updates last > > night and everything looked like it was fine. I then logged on to > > the net to get my email but had to log back off a minute later when > > a customer showed up. I took care of the customer came back in and > > tryed to get back on line but my modem wasnt being initialized (ok > > fine kppp had done this several times before just reboot and it > > works fine again) not this time. So I had kppp query the modem and > > found that there was nothing. This happened once before I just had > > to reinstall the modem drivers and everything would work again. So > > I proceeded to reinstalled the drivers and the machine locks up > > nothing works. I do a hard reboot and end up with the following: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--------- ---------------------------- > > Starting devfsd... > > Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev bad WHEN in > > config line: "msgid "+++ program exit @ %s"" exiting [!!] > > > > Checking root filesystem... > > > > Failed to open the filesystem. > > > > If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is > > valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the > > superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with > > --rebuild-sb. > > > > warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/hdb3 exited with signal 6. > > > > *Filesystem couldnt be fixed :( [!!] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--------- -------------------------- > > > > I havent dealt with this problem before so any help would be > > apreciated. > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 11/21/2003 > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > It looks to me (could be wrong) that in your update and subsequent > etc-update, you overwrote your modem config and /etc/fstab. Hopefully > you have a backup of the fstab on the machine. Boot the box to the > live CD and check the fstab file. If it has been overwritten, use > your backup or rewrite the file with nano-w. Good luck. Let us know > how you make out. > -- > Regards, Ernie > 100% Microsoft and Intel free > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 11/21/2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
