[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi gentoo-users,
I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but
since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the
web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able
to do, was pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down.
I was never able to boot my system since then.
It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or
likewise)
There was good advice from the other users here, but also try a live CD
with a more recent kernel (Gentoo 2008.0-r1 for example, or something
else like openSUSE 11). Also, if removing the journal doesn't work, try
to mount it as ext2 (ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 so doing
that is perfectly OK).
As to the cause of this, I suspect a hardware failure due to overheating
(laptops tend to do that if you don't open them and give them a thorough
cleaning each 10 months or so). I'm an overclocker and things like this
can happen when a CPU or chipset overheats (corrupted data starts to get
written on disk). The other possibility is that the drive is dying
(damaged sectors).
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