Possible the scsi cable is "cocked" or not seated
securely at either end?
or
Bring your machine up into "Single User" mode and run
# fdisk -l
this will show you your partitions on all drives.
Should show you something like:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 1 153 77080+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdd2 154 154 1169 512064 83 Linux native
/dev/hdd3 1024 1170 1271 51408 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdd4 1024 1272 3893 1321488 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 1024 1273 2796 768096 83 Linux native
/dev/hdd6 2048 2798 2899 51408 83 Linux native
/dev/hdd7 2048 2901 3002 51408 83 Linux native
/dev/hdd8 2048 3004 3816 409752 83 Linux native
Then cat /etc/fstab to make sure it hasn't been overwritten somehow
by a binary or garbage...
Good Luck,
Rick
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Graham Knopp wrote:
>
> One of my machines is behaving strangely (it's running RH5.0).
> Everything was fine until I rebooted today (with minor changes that
> shouldn't matter). Now, when it reaches the fsck, it claims that the
> partitions (/usr /usr/local /var and /scr) are not configured or not
> present. Here's the output:
>
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda5
> fsck.ext2: Device not configure while trying to open /dev/sda5
> Possibly non-existent or swap device?
>
> et cetera. Similar output when I try to manually mount:
>
> > mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/sda5 /scr
> mount: /dev/sda5 is not a valid block device
>
> What's going on? How can I have lost four partitions, just like that?
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
>
> Graham Knopp
>
>
>
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