LinuxQuestions.org - Autorepaired SUSE 10 for GRUB reinstall - now hda4 reiserfs superblock not found

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I'm new at this/please be gentle/I'm feeling a little fragile at the moment
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Here is what I did and saw:

The computer is (was?) an HP Pavilion zv5000 with SUSE 10/WIN XP home SP2. There is only one hard drive: hda... 80 gigs. Windows exists on hda1 and occupies about 15 gigs of disk space.
When I first installed SUSE, I opted for the default partition and installtion settings.

Everything was running great, until... I decided to wipe and reinstall windows due to seriously degraded performance.

I selected the LONG reformat option when reinstalling Windows instead of the quick format. I did this operating under the assumption (I admit it... I assumed something)... under the assumption that this would completely erase my Windows partition (what I wanted).

I reinstalled Windows at it boots up properly... without a trace of GRUB (what I expected).

Cool. Now all that I needed to do was reinstall GRUB (also what I expected).

So... I booted from the SUSE 10 DVD, clicked through language selection and license acception, and arrived at the "Installation Mode" screen.

From the "Installation Mode" screen, I clicked "Other...". Then I clicked "Repair"

From the "Repair" screen I came across three options:
1. Click here for automatic repair and go get a cup of coffee
2. Click here if you _think_ you know something.
3. Click here if you are _positive_ that you know what you are doing.

It is here I suspect that I erred.

I clicked option 1. Automatic repair.

From here things are a little sketchy, I admit.

The "auto repair" option spotted a problem. It seems that /dev/hda3 did not have a mount point declared in /etc/fstab.
So I let the repair program suggest a new mount point: /data2. Then it did it again and suggested /data3 as a mount point for hda3.
I accepted both suggestions since I knew that if they were wrong, I could simply edit /etc/fstab.

Now GRUB works great: Windows boots just fine. But when I select Linux...
a lot of text flashes by before I can read it, then it hangs.
At the top of the screen I see: "ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! not found!"

At the very bottom of the screen (after it hangs) is: "ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408"

When I boot from SUSE 10 DVD and select "Boot Installed System" however, I get this:
"booting from hda3..."
then more text flashes by in a hurry... then:
"modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/modules.dep: No such file or directory.

Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab... failed fsck 1.38 (30-June-2005)
bread: Cannot read the block (2): (Invalid Argument) reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2
(ditto the above two lines for block 16)

reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hda4
Failed to open the filesystem.
If the partion table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with
--rebuild-sb.
Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/had4 exited with signal 6.
fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda4 failed (status 0x8) run manually!"

At this point I enter the root password and am dumped out at a command prompt.

Here's what my /etc/fstab looks like:

/dev/hda4 / reiserfs acl,user_xttr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs <blah blah...>
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts node=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/camcorder...
none /dubdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 /data2 reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /data3 reiserfs defaults 1 1

So I run "fdisk -l /dev/hda", I see:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 30314 15277783+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 30328 31854 769608 82 Linux Swap/Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 * 31855 85823 27200376 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 85824 155040 34885147+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 85824 155040 34885116 e W95 FAT 16 (LBA)

Additionally: When I run "TrueCrypt" under Windows and click "select device" I see this:

harddisk0 74.5gb (hda)
harddisk0/part1 C: 14.6gb ntfs (hda1)
harddisk0/part2 751m Linux Swap (hda2)
harddisk0/part3 25.9gb Linux (hda3)
harddisk0/part4 D: 33.3gb 0x0E (hda4)

So, if "Truecrypt" detects the partions correctly, the my SWAP disk is NOT hda3.
Also, that last line there worries me as I don't know what "0x0E" means but I am pretty sure it is not a filesystem type.

I would love to hear that all I have to do is run fsck --rebuild-sb on hda4 and edit /etc/fstab. But since I've hosed it up so far, I thought I would ask before mashing any more buttons.

Sincerely,
"DG"