I shut down my htpc to do a little prep for the face plate im building and now it wont boot. It give a lot of error about the hard drive then ends in a kernel panic. If i boot the install cd and exit to console i can only mount hda3 and hda4. hda1 errors with an input/output error and when I try to fsck it, it says it cant find a ext2 superblock. Any suggestions?

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Tag Scott

AMD 1800
MSI VIA KT-333
GF4 Ti4200
250 GB HHD
PVR-250
SB Live
DVD+/-RW

You're not trying to fsck it while mounted are you? Did you use fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1?

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cesman

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Ok I tried that and it resulted in a short read. I asks if is a zero length partition. Any other suggestions?

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Tag Scott

AMD 1800
MSI VIA KT-333
GF4 Ti4200
250 GB HHD
PVR-250
SB Live
DVD+/-RW

Do a man on the fsck command and read up on how to use the option (-b ?) to select one of the alternate super blocks. You may just be hosed however and need to recreate the FS on that partition...

Any good pointers on how to recreate my root partition for a stock R5A16 install with out hosing up the other two partitions (hda3 & hda4). I dont want to lose the stuff i have recorded and other wise saved on that system

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Tag Scott

AMD 1800
MSI VIA KT-333
GF4 Ti4200
250 GB HHD
PVR-250
SB Live
DVD+/-RW

Well if you had a recent database backup (from mythbackup) an auto upgrade should do the trick, but otherwise...

Have you tried booting from the CD in rescue mode and running the fsck from there?

BTW - Since /dev/hda3 is normally /cache the only thing that should be there is live TV buffers which should be recreated with losing anything. All you really need to preserve is /dev/hda3 aka /myth and suto upgrade does that.

you mean /dev/hda4 aka /myth

He is getting old.

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