Cannot Mount Hard Drive

Hello all,

I am new to linux and new to this forum.

I have a problem with booting linux after the first reboot when I first install SuSe 9.2. It works fine after the first boot, but the second boot brings up a message saying:

Reiser FS: hdf2: warning: sh-2029: reserfs read_bitmaps: bitmap block (#4685824) reading failed.
Kernel Panic: not syncing: VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (33,66)

I have seen a lot of posts about this matter, but haven't found anything that's worked.

I tried booting with knoppix, and knoppix identifies all my hard drives but it cannot mount the hdf2 (the hard drive partition that holds SuSe 9.2).

The message I get when trying to open hdf2 in knoppix is:
Could Not mount device. The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf2, or too many mounted file system.

I used the Qtpartition (i forgot the name :? ) and it identifies the hard drive as having reiser FS paritition. I tried to fix the system by using SuSe's file system repair and it indicates that the reiser file system is corrupt. I have reinstalled SuSe 9.2 numerous times and get the same result after the 1st reboot.

Any suggestions? Bad hard drive?

Thanks in advance for the help.

--ATM

It sounds like a bad hard drive, you can check this via Knoppix with the

Code:

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su
fsck

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command in the console, to learn about this command and how to use it, type

Code:

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man fsck

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in a terminal.

dylunio

Thanks for the reply.

I had a feeling it might be a bad hard drive. I'm going to try to install suse on a different computer and see how it goes.

--ATM