Hiall,

I have a Suse 9.3 professional server, that does not start beyond Intializing Hardware. I try to figure out what happens using the Rescue System option when booting from the Linux cd.

Now I want to mount the original file system, but I do not know what is in the fstab file, and since I can't do fdisk -l or access the fstab file, how can I find out what was the original setup?

When I check 2 other servers in my office, I see 2 different setups:

The first shows:
servername1#ffids@/etc>more fstab
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1

while the second shows

servername2#ffids@/etc>more fstab
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1

So, in rescue mode, logged in as root, I tried to mount either one in the /mnt directory,with

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

Using the first, with sda, the server crashes, literally, it reboots or it just hangs.

When I use the second, with hda, Suse states
mount: block device /dev/hda2 is write-proteced, mouning read-only
mount: /dev/hda2 is not a valid block device

Could this mean that the sda2 is the correct one, but the hdd crashed? Or is the hda2 the correct one, and is the filesystem corrupted? In that case, I could use to repair the reiserfs with reiserfsck.

Or, my filesystem is not in sda or hda, how can I find that out??

Be gentle, I am a newby

Thanks and greetz, Theo