[gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

[gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

[mail]

Hi,

I should be able to use knoppix to boot into and set up my thinkpad
right?

I have a backup of all my files and os from an older thinkpad T41, so I
am booting into my new thinkpad T43, formatting the drives, copying all
my files over, stepping in, re-compiling the kernel, setting up grub,
and I should be on my way right?

I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, but when as soon as I boot,
right after the splash, the system goes nuts with ReiserFS warnings, and
hoses my root drive! (sda3) I can't even mount it after that...

Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
thanks
rick



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Re: [gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

[Kamchybek Jusupov]

Hi mail,

maybe reiser was compiled as module? 

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:00:22 -0400 / mail wrote:
With a subject: [gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

> Hi,
> 
> I should be able to use knoppix to boot into and set up my thinkpad
> right?
> 
> I have a backup of all my files and os from an older thinkpad T41, so
> I am booting into my new thinkpad T43, formatting the drives, copying
> all my files over, stepping in, re-compiling the kernel, setting up
> grub, and I should be on my way right?
> 
> I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, but when as soon as I boot,
> right after the splash, the system goes nuts with ReiserFS warnings,
> and hoses my root drive! (sda3) I can't even mount it after that...
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
> thanks
> rick
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

[Tedwardo Stine]

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Hey Rick,
I think I had a similar problem with a thinkpad and it going nuts after
trying to mount a (any) drive.
However I'm going to need some clarification on what exactly you're trying
to do when you receive the said errors (warnings)
Are you booting the system with a livecd (knoppix, gentoo) ?
If not, does it do the same thing with a livecd (looking for some kind of
consistency)
Can you tell what the warnings are (what they say, some key words if it's
mostly jumbled non-sense)
Did it 'ever' boot fine (without giving warnings/errors)
If it did, do you know what you did (changed) before it started messing up

If you can't mount it, can you mount any other ReiserFS partitions, or any
other filesystems at least.
If it's specific to the ReiserFS partitions then obviously we have a problem
with the driver.
If it can't mount any filesystem we might have a problem with the disk.
(If you can) Check across disks and across filesystem-types.

P.S. When I had my problem I was getting CRC Errors or Cylindrical
Redundancy Check Errors, ended up being the CPU that fried :O

Good luck :D
Tedwardo


On 4/25/07, mail <lists@gmnet.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I should be able to use knoppix to boot into and set up my thinkpad
> right?
>
> I have a backup of all my files and os from an older thinkpad T41, so I
> am booting into my new thinkpad T43, formatting the drives, copying all
> my files over, stepping in, re-compiling the kernel, setting up grub,
> and I should be on my way right?
>
> I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, but when as soon as I boot,
> right after the splash, the system goes nuts with ReiserFS warnings, and
> hoses my root drive! (sda3) I can't even mount it after that...
>
> Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
> thanks
> rick
>
>
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...

[mail]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:58 +0800, Kamchybek Jusupov wrote:
> Hi mail,
> 
> maybe reiser was compiled as module? 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:00:22 -0400 / mail wrote:
> With a subject: [gentoo-laptop] HD getting hosed upon boot...
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I should be able to use knoppix to boot into and set up my thinkpad
> > right?
> > 
> > I have a backup of all my files and os from an older thinkpad T41, so
> > I am booting into my new thinkpad T43, formatting the drives, copying
> > all my files over, stepping in, re-compiling the kernel, setting up
> > grub, and I should be on my way right?
> > 
> > I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, but when as soon as I boot,
> > right after the splash, the system goes nuts with ReiserFS warnings,
> > and hoses my root drive! (sda3) I can't even mount it after that...
> > 
> > Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
> > thanks
> > rick
> > 


Thanks for both your responses! I found out what it was...

It seems that I had to remove the "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/R>> support" After I
removed that, it booed fine. again.

To recap, I just got it and it had windoz on it and booted OK. Then I
used knoppix as my "live CD", re-partitioned the hard drive with a boot,
swap and root partition. then copied my entire hard drive from my older
T41 into my new root partition. Then "steped in" from the live CD into
my new environment. Then re-compiled the kernel. then set up grub,
stepped out, and rebooted. 

I have a couple of other issues that I will start new thread for
Thanks again!
rick


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