On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 17:56, steve wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >My son's system has 1 hard drive, 3 partitions, dual booting w98 & gentoo. > >/dev/hda1 - w98 > >/dev/hda2 - swap > >/dev/hda3 - gentoo / > > > >it boots off grub on the mbr, the grub stage 1,5 and 2 and menu files are > >on /dev/hda3 > >I just rebooted to go into linux and got a grub error 17 which means it is > >unable to mount the partition, ie unable to mount /dev/hda3 to get its > >stage 1.5/2 files. I have now booted off a live cd to diagnose. I cannot > >even remember what filesystem was on there, it would have been ext3 or > >resiser. > > > >When I am in the livecd I tried to use file to see what was there. file > >-Ls /dev/hda1 & /dev/hda2 give the expected result (fat and linux swap > >respectively), but /dev/hda3 simply says "data" > > > >I cannot mount /dev/hda3, either with or without a -t parameter. Without > >-t mount tells me I need to specify a filesystem, using -t reiser or -t > >ext3 or -t ext2 gives an error about no such filesystem or incorrect > >superblock. > > > >Luckily the gentoo partition has no needed data, just the results of large > >number of installation and compilation hours. > > > >However if I can rescue it I'd like to try and do so, and I am curious to > >know how the filesystem got corrupted. > > > >Any diagnosis tips from here on in would be received gratefully. > > > >By the way I have booted it to windows via the good old fdisk /mbr from > >the win98 boot cd. > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > What does fdisk -l /dev/hda say? Is /dev/hda3 still marked as Linux? If > not there'd be no problem marking it as linux. > > fdisk /dev/hda > p ( for print ) > t ( label! ) > 3 ( partition number ) > 83 ( linux ) > w ( write ) > > Any low level guru's think this'd be a bad idea?? > > Steve
been there, done that, it is listed as linux. > > >
