From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:28:37 +0400 Message-ID: <20030613092837.GB10314@namesys.com> References: <32822.203.217.69.236.1055466307.squirrel@webmail.bandcamp.tv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32822.203.217.69.236.1055466307.squirrel@webmail.bandcamp.tv> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Heycock Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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