Having used the rescue and then the root floopy I can get to the
installation menu. The partition list is given as
Device Mounted on Type
/dev/hda1 Not mounted Linux native
2 Not in use Linux swap
3 Not available HPFS / NTFS
4 Not mounted Linux native
Why the Linux swap is not in use, I don't know. hda3 is Window. Running
'e2fsck /dev/hda1' from the shell prompt I get the message
/dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Error reading block 8 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read) while doing the inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
Presumably if I return to the installation menu and select 'Mount a
Previously-Initialized Partition' for hda1 and hda4 everything should be
alright, and I should be able to boot from hda1. How do I deal with the
error message above, and any others that it might find. Presumably I
need to do the same check on hda4 as well.
Thanks for your patience.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> >
> > Okay, so the potato rescue disk seems to kick in alright, at the boot
> > prompt I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'.
> > I get a whole string messages as it locates some things and fails to
> > find others - seems alright to me - but ends with the line 'Kernel
> > panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on fs 03:01' at which point nothing
> > more happens!
>
> I assume that /dev/hda1 is really your root partition and that your kernel
> is there. If you aren't sure, try 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' after booting just
> into rescue mode from the disk without the 'root=/dev/hda1' appended. You
> can look it over to see that it is the correct partition.
>
> I would try booting just into rescue and running 'e2fsck /dev/hda1' You
> might have to use another superblock if that fails:
>
> 'e2fsck -b 8193' or for filesystems with 2k blocksizes, 16384; and for 4k
> blocksizes, 32768.
>
> I haven't been following this; so I apologize if I'm off base here.
>
> Anita
>
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