[gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
Hi everyone, I really need some help. Here is the story: I wanted to play NWN over my network. I had it on my XP partition, so I tried to boot it. Grub gives me error 13, I cant remember the exact message off hand.. I boot into Linux, and try a number of different things, such as a ntfsfix. I tried again, and it still didn't work. At this point I gave up. This is not the most important issue on this post though, so please ignore this problem temporarily. Another thing that I wanted to do sometime is try Ubuntu. I of course did not want to get rid of Gentoo. I used QTParted on a system rescue disk I got a little while ago. I booted in, and then went to resize /dev/hda4 (My / in Gentoo). I got an error during the resize. This partition was not mounted. As I recall, the error was something like error during ped_filesystem_resize_call or something very close. It seemed to abort after that, bringing me back to the main screen, where everything seemed to be back to normal (partition size-wise). I thought, 'ok, we'll do that someother time.' I decided to just boot back into Linux and get on with my day. But, while loading Gentoo, I get a crippling kernel panic: ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4) ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 28521 does not match the expected one 3 ReiserFS: hda4: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 32866. Fsck? ReiserFS: hda4: warning: vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [1 2 0x0 SD] ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority is Linux working. Windows can wait. Thanks!! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. Here are the results: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 ### reiserfsck ### Replaying Journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda4' in blocks [18.8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree../ 1 (of 4)block 32866; The level of the node (28521) is not correct, (3) expected. the problem in the internal node occured (32866), whole subtree is skipped finished Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped 1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree ### reiserfsck finished date ### Thats the output. Thanks! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
Ian K wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. Here are the results: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 ### reiserfsck ### Replaying Journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda4' in blocks [18.8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree../ 1 (of 4)block 32866; The level of the node (28521) is not correct, (3) expected. the problem in the internal node occured (32866), whole subtree is skipped finished Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped 1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree ### reiserfsck finished date ### Thats the output. Thanks! Run fsck with the --rebuild-tree option. However, this will cause any/all folders to be renamed and stuck inside /lost+found. At least that's what happened to me. Then you'll have to sift through files and save the ones you can. This is why I make backups of my config files and save them on my /home partition. Now when I go to reinstall Gentoo (as soon as I get my new hardware), I can copy back make.conf and the other important ones and get back up to speed faster. Also copy over your distfiles if you find them, that saves a lot of time. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
