Gentoo boot error? Just installed

**genesus** · 03-16-2005

Well I just installed gentoo and when I boot I am getting a superblock error.

The error at the end of the boot sequence reads...

Code:

/dev/hda1&#58; The filesystem size &#40;according to the superblock&#41; is 182731 blocks
The physical size of the device is 10032 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

/dev/hda1&#58; UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck Manually.
              &#40;i.e., without -a or -p options&#41;
* Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed                    &#91; !! &#93;

Give root password for maintenance
&#40;or type Control-D for normal startup&#41;&#58;

Now my fstab looks like this...

Code:

/dev/hda1    /boot    ext2    noauto,noatime    1 2
/dev/hda3    /           reiserfs    noatime     0 1
/dev/hda2    none     swap        sw        0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0

none     /proc     proc     defaults    0 0
none     /dev/shm    tmpfs    nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0

And my partition table, (fdisk /dev/hda), looks like this....

Code:

/dev/hda1     1     5              40131     83     Linux
/dev/hda2     6     130      1004062+    82     Linux swap
/dev/hda3  131     1222    8771490      83     Linux

when i run reiserfsck on /dev/hda3 everything turns out correctly
when i run e2fsck on /dev/hda1 I get the selfsame errors with no verbose or other way to fix them, does anyone know what I should do to resolve these errors? For example, how I should fix the superblock?

Thanks for your time,

John

**variant** · 03-16-2005

luckily its just the /boot device thats borked.. boot back into the live cd and

Code:

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Code:

cp -arp /mnt/gentoo/boot/ /mnt/gentoo/boot.backup

Code:

umount /dev/hda1

Code:

mke2fs /dev/hda1

Code:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Code:

cp -arp /mnt/gentoo/boot.backup /mnt/gentoo/boot

Code:

umount -a && reboot

**genesus** · 03-17-2005

thank you so much variant, i really appreciate the help, and it worked like a charm

**variant** · 03-17-2005

Very glad to help, I was able to answer your question because you gave all the right information! For example: the problem, your configuration, what you did to try to fix it and the error messages. Not to mention the fact that you were polite :)

If only all users asked questions in the correct way then there would be a lot less frustration and we would all learn a lot more a lot faster :D

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