Hi there. I'm having serious problems since I put FC4 on my system which already has (B)LFS 6.0 and SuSE 9.1. I can't boot into SuSE or LFS at present. Actually, FC4 might not be the problem. I tried to put Sarge on /dev/hda which was a primary partition I made. I'm using the linuxformat dvd, so I had to disable my cdrom and enable the dvd-rw in the bios. This is all very well until the debian base package tries to install where it looks for the cd drive. I tried to mount debian on /boot in /dev/hda2. Prior to this, suse was mounted on / on /dev/hda1 and lfs on / on /dev/hda4 with a swap on /dev/hda3. After I aborted the debian install to try make iso cds instead of the dvd, I got stuck when trying to boot into suse. using the suse rescue disk, i did a fsck.reiserfs which repaired any errors on /dev/hda1. grub however failed to recover, pointing to a mount error on /dev/hda2 (????) I tried booting the installed system using the rescue cd (i.e. to boot suse on / on /dev/hda1) the result was my root directory mounted read-only and a fsck.reiserfs showing error 6 for /dev/hda2
I installed FC4 to get a working system. Fine. FC4 is mounted on / on /dev/hda2 (ext3) I then mounted suse to mount (i.e. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt) I still have everything here, which is fine. Also, I can mount LFS (mount /dev/hda4 /mnt) and everything is fine here also. I tried to get a backup menu.lst from /var/log/messages and from /boot/grub/menu.lst~old ->nothing Here is a console output of SuSE's filesystem from inside /mnt on FC4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ls -la total 223 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 560 Aug 4 2005 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Aug 4 12:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2888 Aug 4 2005 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1544 Aug 4 2005 boot drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 180800 Aug 4 2005 dev drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 8880 Aug 4 2005 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Sep 22 2004 games drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Jun 4 11:45 home drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3384 Aug 20 2004 lib drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 320 Jun 30 19:43 media drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Apr 5 17:05 mnt drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 296 Dec 17 2004 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Aug 20 2004 proc drwx------ 128 root root 7264 Aug 4 2005 root drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8720 Aug 4 2005 sbin drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Dec 17 2004 srv -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 2005 success drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Aug 20 2004 sys drwxrwxrwt 117 root root 7200 Aug 4 2005 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 5 17:10 tools -> /mnt/lfs/tools drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 344 Jan 26 2005 usr drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 384 Aug 20 2004 var Also, and sorry about the message length, here is my /etc/fstab for SuSE devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/lfs reiserfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 This seems strange. The /boot mount point for debian still exists. Even though fdisk shows /dev/hda1 96 62523 31463302+ 83 Linux (suse) /dev/hda2 * 62524 93731 15728832 83 Linux (fedora) /dev/hda3 93732 95812 1048824 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 95813 127020 15728832 83 Linux (This is lfs) So what should I do now to get suse and lfs back running? Thanks in advance -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
