Urgent help needed on an odd boot problem

mdarby · 10-01-2006, 09:53 AM

I get back from the Ohio LinuxFest last night to find my home server unresponsive. I hard reboot the machine, and upon boot up it attempts to check the root filesystem (hda1), with reiserfsck. When it does this, reiserfsck immediately errors out, saying that it cannot find /dev/hda1.

I then boot my system with SystemRescue CD, and I can mount all of my drives easily, with no issues. I've chrooted into hda1 with no issues. The root directory structure is there, and intact. I exit chroot, unmount hda1, and manually ran reiserfsck with and without the --rebuild-tree option. All checks out perfectly.

But when I boot into my normal slackware installation, it still gives me the reiserfsck error (saying "hda1, no such file or directory), and prompts me for superuser maintenance login. I've tried four different known working kernels.

I've gone so far as chroot into my installation and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.S to remove the FORCEFSK variable checking. No luck.

Of course, I literally have three papers due in the next three days, one is nearly done (and solely stored on this server), and I haven't started the other two.

So, I need desperate help, thy Community. Google has failed me.

dogged28 · 10-01-2006, 10:10 AM

just curious, how new or old is the hd? could it be going bad?

cking · 10-01-2006, 10:17 AM

is this a new kernel or same you have used all along?

mdarby · 10-01-2006, 10:22 AM

I'm not sure on the HDD age, but it can't be more than a year or so. It's not making any whirring, nor clicking sounds.

I've tried my default kernel (2.6.17.8) that I've used since that version of the kernel was released, along with other known working kernels that I've used in the past, down to 2.6.12.

Again, I can access the drive just fine via a Live CD, but reiserfsck is killing the boot process.

onebuck · 10-01-2006, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdarby

I'm not sure on the HDD age, but it can't be more than a year or so. It's not making any whirring, nor clicking sounds.

I've tried my default kernel (2.6.17.8) that I've used since that version of the kernel was released, along with other known working kernels that I've used in the past, down to 2.6.12.

Again, I can access the drive just fine via a Live CD, but reiserfsck is killing the boot process.

Hi,

Try booting your system as single user mode then do your reiserfsck.

mdarby · 10-01-2006, 10:34 AM

I did boot into single user, but still it would not find hda1.

*** SOLVED ***
I forgot to move the /etc/rc.d/rc.*.new files into their proper locations after my last ~current update.

Sigh.

Thanks for your help all, now I just have to wait for my hair to grow back.

dogged28 · 10-01-2006, 10:48 AM

no prob. glad you fixed it. now, have a drink, a smoke, take 10 to relax, then get started on your schoolwork.

mdarby · 10-01-2006, 11:02 AM

Thanks

I think I drank too much last night after LinuxFest. Seeing maddog speak was surreal.