hi all
I just installed Gentoo linux 1.4 and at boot up, run into an error:
checking root filesystem... [!!]
fsck 1.33
Failed to open filesystem
fsck recommends running with --rebuild-sb, etc, etc
unable to rebuild filesystem
fsck exited with signal 6 on dev/ROOT
After that I enter the root password to "manage" the problem, but the root partition is read-only. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have the Gentoo Live cd, so if necessary I can get around the read-only problem. Here is my (abridged, without the periods) /etc/fstab:
<fs>.............<mount>..........<type>...........<opt>.....................<dump/pass>
/dev/BOOT...../boot..............ext3...............noauto,noatime.........1...1
/dev/ROOT...../.....................reiserfs...........notail,noatime...........0...0
/dev/SWAP....none...............sw..................swap.........................0...0
I've already tried rebuilding the superblock and checking with fsck, no luck there, and I'm sure I the kernel is configured to support ReiserFS, I've already re-compiled with the help of the live CD. I don't really understand the workings of fstab, I guess thats the problem. The boot partition of Gentoo is on hdb1, swap on hdb2, and root on hdb3.
Thanks in advance for your help.