Gentoo!

Mpemba Effect · 4 Aug 2004 at 23:53

reboot

burns · 4 Aug 2004 at 23:54

Doh, thanks for sticking with this Mpemba
edit, Shall I redo those first three steps now I've rebooted?

Mpemba Effect · 4 Aug 2004 at 23:57

No problem dude

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Hmmm, I better brace myself for all the questions to come

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
rofl It's in the docs! I can already tell this is going to be a long night

edit: and a long thread

I knew all too well what I was getting to

edit: ... and I congratulate you for your patients, many would have given up by now. Stick with it! You've already learn more than you think

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:02

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
edit: ... and I congratulate you for your patients, many would have given up by now. Stick with it! You've already learn more than you think

The magic of being unemployed(student

) you have time to do 34 hour linux instal

. Anyway...

Do I need to repeat the first three steps of this solution now I've rebooted?

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:05

Nope

Just mount /dev/hda3 into /mnt/gentoo. "cd" into there and change fstab from ext3 to ex2. Then you should be set to go

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:08

Done, fingers crossed

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Edit
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo
Damn, still didnt work

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:10

Oh forgot to delete the .journal file, maybe that caused it not to work...

ci_newman · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:11

*sigh* come on dave, get your act together

Caffine is a wonderful tool

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:11

Unlikely, but whats the error this time around?

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:12

Same one, error 2.

Chris- STFU and make me some coffe then!

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:18

Hmm, I can't find this .journal file, ls -A isn't showing it in /boot.

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:19

rofl

ok lets check if you have ext2 built into your kernel. Same procedure as earlier. Mount up /dev/hda3 into /mnt/gentoo and type

Code:

grep [color=red]"EXT2"[/color] /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config

The important output will be

Code:

CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y

failing that redo

Originally posted by riven
you did put grub on you mbr too didnt you?

grub> root (hd0,0) (your boot partiiton)
grub> setup (hd0) (the mbr)

i missed that once and it took me ages to figure it all out

That section and try again. Meanwhile I'm going to take a shower and hit the sack. See what you can dig up on grub error 2 from searching the gentoo forums. I'll check how you're doing in the morning

edit: I made a typo above EXT2 not EXT3

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:20

Originally posted by burns
Hmm, I can't find this .journal file, ls -A isn't showing it in /boot.

In that case don't worry about the .journal file

burns · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:25

Yeah, ext2 is there, grub won't run though, I guess I need to chroot? That can wait till morning though

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Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 00:43

Originally posted by burns
Yeah, ext2 is there, grub won't run though, I guess I need to chroot?

Spot on mate

I'm telling you when this is sorted you'll be an expert on grub and linux recovery

riven · 5 Aug 2004 at 09:05

i dont think you can just remove journaling by deleting a file, because the filetable will still be identifying itself as ext3 but wont have a .journal file, so will be corrupt, or will recreate the file each time.

all that is on the /boot drive is the kernel and grub right?

so its not too hard to reformat with fdisk then mke2fs.

them do a nice clean reinstall of grub, and recompile your kernel and copy it to boot.

i recon thats the best method for you. you could just copy the kernel over and copy it back, but i think it would be helpful if we guided you through the kernel just incase it was that.

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 09:43

Originally posted by riven
i dont think you can just remove journaling by deleting a file, because the filetable will still be identifying itself as ext3 but wont have a .journal file, so will be corrupt, or will recreate the file each time.

Na, you've missed a few pages dude - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=2978406#post2978406

riven · 5 Aug 2004 at 09:47

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Na, you've missed a few pages dude - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=2978406#post2978406

ah, i guess your fancy

umount /dev/hda1
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1
e2fsck /dev/hda1
# Edit /etc/fstab to change /dev/hda1 to mount type ext2
mount /dev/hda1

did that without having to completely reformat.

Mpemba Effect · 5 Aug 2004 at 09:51

Personally I would have reformat, theres a couple things I really don't like; converting filesystems and resizing repartions in hope you're data will still be there.

riven · 5 Aug 2004 at 09:58

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Personally I would have reformat, theres a couple things I really don't like; converting filesystems and resizing repartions in hope you're data will still be there.

ive used QTParted to resive my ntfs partition from knoppix several times. I must say i found it very good, and nothing got fubared.