Hello all,

Been searching a solution the entire day without success and have tried everything without risking to much my data and still cannot mount /

Some info.. been using my slackware laptop without any booting problems for about a month since yesterday when i mounted a vfat floppy disk to copy a file into linux. When i rebooted next day i had a whole bunch of errors..

I'm using a laptop with Slackware 8.1, have three partitions:
hda1 for /
hda5 for swap
hda6 for backup

The errors are:

*When booting normally..

FAT: bogus logical sector size 2109
FAT: bogus logical sector size 2109
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 03:01, block 64, size 1024)
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 03:01, block 8, size 1024)
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

*When i boot using the slacware (somehow worked doing 'bare.i root=/dev/hda2 noinitr" when i have no hda2..) i'm able to mount hda6 (my backup partition) but cannot mount hda1 (my / partition)

ie when..
mkdir /mnt/hd1
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd1
.. i get .. wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems

Can all this be caused by simply mounting a vfat floopy?? What is with reiserfs, my / is ext2.. how can i fix this??
I'm sure for some of you this is very easy to solve..

Thanks in advance!

If you have no ReiserFS partitions then why is the kernel loading Reiser?
Did you tinker with /etc/fstab? Check that everything is fine there.
i have no idea what else could be the problem, but mounting the floppy should not have caused any problems, are you 100% sure you didnt do anything else, like install new packages or modify, delete or move any config file?
-NSKL

i dunno.. i was simply copying some firmware for my adsl modem using a vfat floopy and then next day reboot and got this mess..
i wish i could mess up with /etc/fstab but cannot even mount my root partition using the slackware CD..
my partition must be corrupted, is there a safe way to repair it?
thanks

problem solved, just loaded the slackware cd and run fsck on the corrupted partition.

Damn, dont you just love Slack....