[gentoo-user] Boot problem

[gentoo-user] Boot problem

[abeille julien]

Hi,

I am experiencing a boot problem after having used
"testdisk" recovery utility:

My disk contained the following partitions:

hda1 : Primary, NTFS 
hda2 : Primary, Linux ext2 (gentoo boot partition)
hda3 : Primary, NTFS
hda4 : Extended
hda5 : Logical, Linux Swap
hda6 : Logical, ext3 (gentoo root partition)

I am using kernel 2.6 and grub as boot manager

Using testdisk, 
hda2 was renamed hda3 and hda3 was renamed hda2.

When booting, I did not access grub selection page.
I changed grub.conf so that the boot partition in
grub.conf is hda3, and used "grub" shell to write grub
to the MBR.

Now when I boot I get to grub selection page, I can
boot windows, but when booting Gentoo, I get the
following errors: 
"starting devfs
error opening file: /etc/devfs.d : no such file or
directory
could not start /sbin/devfsd"

then further:
"fsck.ext3 no such file or directory while trying to
open /dev/hda6
/dev/hda6: the superblock could not be read or does
not describe a correct ext2 filesystem"

Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Julien


	

	
		
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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problem

[Julien Abeillé]

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It is ok I just created a /etc/devfs.d directory.
This might have comed from what I had runned previously:
emerge --update --deep world
_etc-update_

Thanks,
Julien



abeille julien wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am experiencing a boot problem after having used
>"testdisk" recovery utility:
>
>My disk contained the following partitions:
>
>hda1 : Primary, NTFS 
>hda2 : Primary, Linux ext2 (gentoo boot partition)
>hda3 : Primary, NTFS
>hda4 : Extended
>hda5 : Logical, Linux Swap
>hda6 : Logical, ext3 (gentoo root partition)
>
>I am using kernel 2.6 and grub as boot manager
>
>Using testdisk, 
>hda2 was renamed hda3 and hda3 was renamed hda2.
>
>When booting, I did not access grub selection page.
>I changed grub.conf so that the boot partition in
>grub.conf is hda3, and used "grub" shell to write grub
>to the MBR.
>
>Now when I boot I get to grub selection page, I can
>boot windows, but when booting Gentoo, I get the
>following errors: 
>"starting devfs
>error opening file: /etc/devfs.d : no such file or
>directory
>could not start /sbin/devfsd"
>
>then further:
>"fsck.ext3 no such file or directory while trying to
>open /dev/hda6
>/dev/hda6: the superblock could not be read or does
>not describe a correct ext2 filesystem"
>
>Can anyone help?
>Thanks,
>Julien
>
>
>	
>
>	
>		
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