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"...can't locate module /dev/ROOT
Failed to open the filesystem"
It suggests that if the partition table contains a reiserfs partition (which it does), then the superblock is corrupted and I need to run this utility with --rebuild-sb.
Which utility?
It is a gentoo installation which I've just finnished.
It is probably one of the fsck*-tools. My guess is, that it's called 'reiserfsck'.
I don't use reiserfs, so I really don't know for sure.
But I'm pretty sure it is in the 'reiserfsprogs' ebuild.
I had copied the instruction manual text "dev/ROOT" instead of replacing "ROOT" with, in my case, "hda3". Since I don't know much about reiserfsck maybe this was what you ment. Thanks anyway!
I had copied the instruction manual text "dev/ROOT" instead of replacing "ROOT" with, in my case, "hda3". Since I don't know much about reiserfsck maybe this was what you ment. Thanks anyway!
/lnb
No, it was not!
But I have also made a similar mistake once... (I was short on time and forgot to edit /etc/fstab properly before reboot. So the kernel thought I was using xfs instead of ext3!)
Needless to say: I don't make that mistake again.
You learn from your own mistakes.
Carsten
Last edited by carstenbjensen; 05-06-2004 at 05:30 AM.
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No, it was not! 
