[olug] Hosed Distro

[Jon H. Larsen]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Joe Gulizia wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:55:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Hosed Distro
> 
> THe Novell Disk says that hda2 and hda6 are bad
> (Bootloader among those corrupted).
> 
> It won't repair itself...says to do manually.

To repair the partition manually, boot into your knoppix cd.
open a shell, and run the fsck program on the partitions you are having 
problems with.  

(unmount the paritition first)

umount /dev/hda6 

(then check it)
fsck /dev/hda6

You may be prompted to fix areas of the disk.


> I'll try the fdisk -l as outlined below.

This simply lists the partitions on the drive, as such:

#> fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 27.3 GB, 27373731840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          10       80293+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              11        1315    10482412+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1316        1413      787185   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4            1414        3328    15382237+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            1414        3328    15382206   83  Linux



> Things are in the ext2/ext3 area.
> 
> Hard to tell exactly how far into the startup it
> dies....somewhere near the end of loading according to
> the status bar.
> 
> Someone else suggested putting in a case fan also to
> help things run cooler. Never done that before.
> Need to find one of those.
> 
> I'll check all cables also.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Joe Gulizia
> --- "Jon H. Larsen" <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:04:30 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
> > > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > > Subject: [olug] Hosed Distro
> > > 
> > > I had problems with my machine...fan got something
> > > stuck in it and I ended up hosing my SUSE 9.1
> > > Distribution.  The machine says I need to run fsck
> > > manually on hda6.  All the machine does is
> > continually
> > > reboot itself.  I only got to login by running a
> > Live
> > > CD of Knoppix.  I can't get to a shell prompt
> > either
> > > other than through knoppix.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Knoppix doesn't show a hda3 or 4 either.
> > > 
> > > Help appreciated.
> > 
> > What does your partition table look like?  You can
> > do this in knoppix by 
> > running 'fdisk -l'
> > 
> > If your filesystem is ext2/ext3 run 'e2fsck
> > /dev/hda6' to manually check 
> > it.  Might as well do the other partitions on your
> > partition table too.
> > 
> > 
> > How far do you get in the boot before it restarts?
> > 
> > 
> > Check to make sure all your fans are running
> > properly, even the one on 
> > the motherboard chipset if you have one.
> > 
> > Double check all your cable connections (should do
> > this anytime you stick 
> > your hands in a pc case. :)
> > 
> > 
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