From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Richard Heycock <rgh@roughage.com.au>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:28:37 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613092837.GB10314@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32822.203.217.69.236.1055466307.squirrel@webmail.bandcamp.tv>
Hello!
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:05:07AM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote:
> I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my
> root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked
> it. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of
> 'ReiserFS V3.6 block...' and I can no longer mount it.
> When the machine tries to boot it loads the kernel (from /dev/hda6) but
> when it comes to mount the root partition it kernel panics as it cannot
> mountthe filesystem.
> I know at least some of the data is on the partition (`less /dev/hda5`).
> I'm guessing that grub-install has overwritten N number of bytes at the
> beginning of the partition but beyond that I'm at a complete loss of what
> to do.
> Help!
If the latest reiserfsck run with --rebuild-sb switch does not help you,
then refer to http://namesys.com/support.html as this is clearly user error
on your side.
Bye,
Oleg
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-13 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-13 1:05 Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem Richard Heycock
2003-06-13 8:17 ` Yury Umanets
2003-06-13 9:28 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
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