Sudden problem yesterday booting via grub 0.97 legacy which has worked fine since 2008.
I have 4 disks, 3 of which have various versions of Slackware, also WinXP and Win7.
Now cannot boot any of the OS on one of the disks, but the other OS/disks boot OK.
This morning all seemed OK - once. First boot of Slack13.37 x86_64 was OK.
Subsequent reboots failed.
There is no error message. For Slackware 13.37 and Slackware 13.1 the system just reboots
immediately after selecting the OS from the grub menu. Win7 hangs with a startup message.
I can still run Slack 13.1 and 12.2 which are on different disks.
When I mount the partition /dev/sdb7 containing Slack 13.37, the files look OK via Dolphin file manager.
smartctl -H says "PASSED" for all 4 disks.
'reiserfsck --check --logfile check.log /dev/sdb7' says "No corruptions found"
But it didn't actually create a logfile, and I don't understand the rest of the stuff attached below.
Starting Slack 13.1 on /dev/hda9 works fine via grub command line, but Slack 13.37 on /dev/sdb7 doesn't.
find /boot/vmlinuz shows expected results i.e. it lists (hd3,6) and the other partitions with Slackware
root (hd3,6) says "Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83"
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb7 ro vga=791 says "[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3800, size=0x5948a0]"
boot - the system instantly reboots and I'm back to the grub menu.
I'm supposing it's a hardware problem, but it's weird that neither smartctl nor reiserfsck show anything.
untoward. And a quick browse of the files on the partitions that won't boot doesn't show anything strange.
Edit - I also tried booting via the Slackware 13.37 install DVD. When the install DVD
boots there are instructions on how to boot in an emergency. I tried that too.
It loaded the kernel and (I think) initrd, followed by instant reboot.
boot: huge.s root=/dev/sdb7 rdinit= ro
Any suggestions gratefully received, before I reluctantly buy a new 1̶G̶b̶
1TB disk and start
reinstalling tons of stuff.
Cheers,
Peter
Code:
reiserfsck --check --logfile check.log /dev/sdb7
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
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** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. **
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Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdb7
Will put log info to 'check.log'
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
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reiserfsck --check started at Tue Aug 14 00:17:40 2012
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Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay.
Checking internal tree.. finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
Leaves 254141
Internal nodes 1720
Directories 40280
Other files 1256771
Data block pointers 4640462 (73156 of them are zero)
Safe links 0
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reiserfsck finished at Tue Aug 14 00:23:54 2012
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Slack 13.37 x86_64 - OK for over a year, but suddenly can't boot. Hardware?
