Problem with linux mandrake 8.1 box on boot
Hope someone can advise on the following. I went to boot one of our linux mandrake 8.1 boxes today and received the following error messages: Loading reiserfs module Mounting /proc filesyste, Creating root device Mounting root filesystem hda5: bad access: block=128 count=2 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 128 read_super_block: unable to read superblock on dev 03:05 read_old_super_block: try to find super block in old location hda5: bad access: block=16, count=8 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 16 read_old_super_block: unable to read superblock on dev 03:05 mount: error 22 mounting reiserfs flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel I appears the partition hda5 has become corrupt somehow. Is there a way to repair it without reinstalling. I am keen to get the files of the partition if possible. Ashley
on 14/3/02 1:34 pm, MJ Ray at markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Ashley @ Turton <ashley@turton.com> wrote:
hda5: bad access: block=128 count=2 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 128
At first glance, that looks like a hardware failure. I hope I'm wrong.
The disk also has an installation of Windows ME on it and that boots fine. Hence, I think it is Linux specific, but I don't have the expertise to know how to rescue it. I know how to reinstall, but I would prefer not to do that. Ashley
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ashley @ Turton wrote:
on 14/3/02 1:34 pm, MJ Ray at markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Ashley @ Turton <ashley@turton.com> wrote:
hda5: bad access: block=128 count=2 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 128
At first glance, that looks like a hardware failure. I hope I'm wrong.
The disk also has an installation of Windows ME on it and that boots fine. Hence, I think it is Linux specific, but I don't have the expertise to know how to rescue it. I know how to reinstall, but I would prefer not to do that.
It also sounds like a possible disk failure to me, I have had 2 in the past week. On both occasions the disk started failing and killed linux first but then took out windows also. Anyhow any likelyhood of recovering files on that partition seem low because of the error message, you can try booting from a recovery disk and mounting the partition manually but I don't think you are going to get very far. Adam -- Adam "a funny thing about regret is, that it's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done"
Hi Ashley, Adam I have had some success in recovering data from IDE drives when everyone else thought them to be beyond hope. Plug the drive into another machine as a slave, and try mounting it. I suspect that the reiserfs might cause problems though. One advantage of ext3 is it can be mounted as an ext2 file system - I don't suppose it is possible to do the same with reiserfs... Regards, Paul. On Thursday 14 Mar 2002 2:29 pm, Adam Bower wrote:
Anyhow any likelyhood of recovering files on that partition seem low because of the error message, you can try booting from a recovery disk and mounting the partition manually but I don't think you are going to get very far.
on 14/3/02 10:01 pm, Paul at paul.corner@tesco.net wrote:
Hi Ashley, Adam
I have had some success in recovering data from IDE drives when everyone else thought them to be beyond hope. Plug the drive into another machine as a slave, and try mounting it. I suspect that the reiserfs might cause problems though.
Will try.
One advantage of ext3 is it can be mounted as an ext2 file system - I don't suppose it is possible to do the same with reiserfs...
This is very useful. I will use ext3, instead of reiser, when I reinstall. Ashley
Hi Ashley, Adam & all Yep go with ext3. Unlike reiserfs, ext3 also stores meta-data of data, meaning that there is a journal of data <including data contents> as well as a journal of the sectors most recently written. Plus you get backwards compatibility with ext2 tools. ext3 is literally ext2 + a couple of journal files & kernel extensions to manage them. So the non-aware ext2 tools will work; they'll treat the journals as just another file. Reiserfs is a bit faster though, esp. with small files - but I like proven reliability + proven toolsets. ...now if either of them indexed the fs as well... ?:^) brodders ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley @ Turton" <ashley@turton.com> To: "Paul" <paul.corner@tesco.net>; <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Alug] Problem with linux mandrake 8.1 box on boot
on 14/3/02 10:01 pm, Paul at paul.corner@tesco.net wrote:
Hi Ashley, Adam
I have had some success in recovering data from IDE drives when everyone
else
thought them to be beyond hope. Plug the drive into another machine as a slave, and try mounting it. I suspect that the reiserfs might cause problems though.
Will try.
One advantage of ext3 is it can be mounted as an ext2 file system - I don't suppose it is possible to do the same with reiserfs...
This is very useful. I will use ext3, instead of reiser, when I reinstall.
Ashley
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