Hi Bobby,
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Bobby Barnett wrote:
Hi Troy,
I have been using SL5 for about 6 months without any problems. I
installed this with CD's downloaded from your site. My machine is a Sun
workstation with 2 core and two disks that were linked together during
this install.
what does "linked together" mean? MD? Hardware RAID? LVM?
I was in a hurry to logout on Friday morning and instead of logging out,
I hit shutdown instead. Now I can not boot the system. I get the error
fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc
[FAILED]
It's looking for a filesystem on an unpartitioned disk. That's not a
standard setup (and one that Red Hat wouldn't support).
I can't seem to work around this. I briefly tried the rescue disk
without much success. This computer is for protein crystallographic
refinement and it is a one man shop, and unfortunately without a linux
support staff. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Universities... ;-) Could you try the rescue disk again? Choose "skip"
when it asks whether it should try to detect and mount the filesystems,
and let us know what's there/left - content of /proc/partitions, output
of "fisk -l" for sda/b/c/d, output of "e2label" for all partitions,...
If some partition seems likely to contain your /etc/fstab, mount it
read-only and retrieve fstab. ...
- Stephan
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Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV -
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany
