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 -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton