have made some progress on this but still stuck.
starting to seem like there are or may be some
mandriva-specific issues to the situation.
here is a link to the beginnings of this in a
thread from the linux newbies forum:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ailing-626027/
using the live one cd i have gotten past the grub
errors described there. i'm now at a point where
i'm getting some errors having to do with superblocks
(sorry but i don't know how to put the following
text into a text box):
No volume groups found
Invalidating stale software suspend images... done.
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: swapon: /dev/hda5: Invalid argument [FAILED]
Checking filesystems
fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda6
/dev/hda6:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the filesystem check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
this error comes when i try to boot into the cloned hard
drive. at this point i have gotten past the live one cd
and it is no longer in the box. i'm doing a full boot of
the system from being turned off, booting to the cloned
hard drive. that's when the above error comes up.
i'm enough of a newb that i have no idea how to proceed.
emerson, on the newbies forum made a suggestion to try:
mke2fs -n /dev/hda1
this tells me the drive is mounted and that i can't run
this command. should i be running this command from the
live one cd?
thanks,
BabaG
