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Author:  Tag_Scott [ Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Hard Drive Issue

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?

Author:  cesman [ Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:12 pm ]
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You're not trying to fsck it while mounted are you? Did you use fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1?

Author:  Tag_Scott [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:14 am ]
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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?

Author:  tjc [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:32 pm ]
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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...
Code:
man fsck.ext2

Author:  Tag_Scott [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:02 pm ]
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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

Author:  tjc [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:22 pm ]
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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.

Author:  Greg Frost [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:28 pm ]
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you mean /dev/hda4 aka /myth

Author:  cesman [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:37 pm ]
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He is getting old. ;)

Author:  tjc [ Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:18 pm ]
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Yes I did, and yes I am. ;-)

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