My / partition is officially borked. I would highly recommend NOT using Gnu Parted, btw. It's screwed up my partitions twice now. Guess I'm stuck with good old Windows XP for a month, until I get some time in the summer to put linux back on.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > Hello Alan, > > On Sunday 11 April 2004 00:01, Alan Chu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to resize down my root partition using Gnu Parted, off of a boot > > disk. It failed midway, saying that there was an "invalid node". After > > rebooting, I get kernel panic: > > > > ----- > > sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,9) > > XFS: bad magic number > > XFS: SB validate failed > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:09 > > ----- > > > > I checked my partitions, and their numbers haven't changed (hda1 is still > > hda1, hda2 is still hda2, etc.) so /etc/fstab should be fine. > > > > I searched around on the Gentoo forums, but most answers involve someone > > trying to install Gentoo. Before using parted, my gentoo worked fine. So, > > the kernel options should be correct. > > > > So I used the Linux "Recovery is Possible 6.9" boot disk, and ran > > "reiserfsck --check" on my /dev/hda9, which is my / partition. The output > > was the following: > > > > ----- > > Replaying journal.. > > No transactions found > > Checking internal tree.. > > Bad root block 0. > > (--rebuild-tree did not complete) > > Aborted > > ----- > > > > Funny thing is, I didn't run "--rebuild-tree" yet. So, next, I tried the > > "--rebuild-tree" option, since nothing is working, > > what does reiserfsck --check say now? Does it find any corruption? > > > -- > Thanks, > Vitaly Fertman > >
