Hi All,

I have a dual boot system with two hard drives... on the first drive (hda) i have win2k. And the second drive i hv (hdc) Redhat linux 7.2 both was working fine ... no problems was there...

Now the problem is my linux boot partition has corrputed when i select the Redhat linux tooo boot it drops to be a grub shell prompt.... I have a boot floppy when is boot through floppy its boot fines ..... and i get a message say /boot mount can't be mounted ... i guess coz the /boot partition has corrpution .... here is the /var/log/messages i hv when i boot through flpoppy so tht u guys can help me to reslove the problem... Is there a way to put back the /boot parition working fine ...

this is the error i get when i boot through floppy
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Feb 28 21:54:42 dpen mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
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Thanx in advance ......

Vinay R

Did you do anything to it? Did you add new hardware? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding you, however I'm guessing you are saying you can boot up with a boot floppy. If that is so, try booting all the way up, and run:
fdisk -l

Watch to see if your partitions have changed. Try mounting the /boot partititon at a temporary location, maybe /mnt/boot

If you didn't have much there to recover, and you've got a working kernel (on your boot floppy) you could simply recreate the partition, copy the boot info back over to the newly recreated partition, and go.

Or, you can always build a new kernel, and do the same thing.

Cool

hi,

I have checked i have a /boot partition but .. nothing is there in it other than grub driectory & kernel.h files thats it ...

so u suggest to copy the boot floppy contain to the /boot partition right ??? or else build a new kernel ????? plz let me know ...

Yeah, copy the kernel image from the boot floppy or build a new kernel. Personally never built a boot floppy, so I wouldn't know exactly what other files are and aren't there, so if you see a System.map file on the floppy too, copy that to the /boot partition as well. Your kernel will probably be named either vmlinuz or bzImage and might be followed with a -kernelversion or something like that.



You might be better off building a new kernel, however, that's a bit more work than copying files from a floppy, so give that a run first.

Cool

Now i am not able to boot through floppy this is the message i get ...
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mounting /proc filesystem
creating root devices
mounting root filesystem
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide1(22,2)
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot.root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.
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can u plz help on this .... as i need very badly to boot coz all my data is in it.....

Rgds,
Vinay R

It looks like data is corrupting more and more. At this point, you should look into using a rescue disc (maybe your install CD can be used as one, if not, look into using knoppix from google.com/linux ) and getting info off the drive. After recovering what you must have, run an fsck on the drive:
fsck /dev/hdx
You might not be lucky enough to get anything at this point if data is corrupting it that bad. Good Luck!

Cool