wont boot

serrghi · 2008-03-28 17:13:48

ok i have a serious problem. I was trying out pm-suspend, but the screen was blank/off when i went out of suspend. so i restarted the computer, got back into arch and noticed there was something definetly wrong, so i undid the resume=/dev/sda2 (which is my swap) from menu.lst and rebooted, but now i get a filesystem error. Nothing will load, i have a bunch of lines "/etc/rc.sysinit: line xxxx: xxx_cmd: command not found"
and ends tiwh "the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem" and it tells me to repair with "e2fsck -b 8193 <device>" i dont have a ext2 filesystem but a ext3, and the fsck refuses to work.

Sidenote to this, is that some days ago my swap stopped working, it wouldnt initialize, dont know why. So im guessing thats why the suspend didnt work as suspend suspends to swap(?), and since i dont have any swap atm, because it wont initialize it doesnt work. But why have my filesystem gone shebang? And what can i do to repair it? PLEASE HELP

freigeist · 2008-03-28 18:17:26

serrghi wrote:

ok i have a serious problem. I was trying out pm-suspend, but the screen was blank/off when i went out of suspend. so i restarted the computer, got back into arch and noticed there was something definetly wrong, so i undid the resume=/dev/sda2 (which is my swap) from menu.lst and rebooted, but now i get a filesystem error. Nothing will load, i have a bunch of lines "/etc/rc.sysinit: line xxxx: xxx_cmd: command not found"
and ends tiwh "the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem" and it tells me to repair with "e2fsck -b 8193 <device>" i dont have a ext2 filesystem but a ext3, and the fsck refuses to work.
Sidenote to this, is that some days ago my swap stopped working, it wouldnt initialize, dont know why. So im guessing thats why the suspend didnt work as suspend suspends to swap(?), and since i dont have any swap atm, because it wont initialize it doesnt work. But why have my filesystem gone shebang? And what can i do to repair it? PLEASE HELP

Boot with the install cd:

Run fdisk -l /dev/sda and check if all of your partitions are listed and with the correct type

Run fsck.ext3 -p /dev/$yourbootdevice
and fsck.ext3 -p /dev/$yourrootdevice

Post your results...

Just as a sidenote and for your information, ext3 is in fact a ext2 filesystem with an additional journal, therefore you have a ext2 filesytem and ext2 tools will work

Last edited by freigeist (2008-03-28 18:21:44)

serrghi · 2008-03-28 18:41:19

and in there presents a different problem. I dont have a working cdrom on that computer. And the computer that works is running windows.

*** Update: going to try backtrack as failsafe distro. Il post the results shortly.

***Update 2:

The filesystem seems fine, and ive run fsck.ext3 /dev/hda4 (which was the correct partion under the usb distro) Ive repaired it (contained alot of errors) and tried to boot up again, but still the same error..

*** update 3:
it seems my rc.conf is corrupted. which prob mean other important files are too.

****update 4

it seems my system is dead. Good thing is that i have access to the system folders and can backup my settings files.
But i wont reinstall tonight, so if anyone have any good ideas to what i can do to fix this mess feel free to share any ideas.

Btw just to specify, it seems the system hangs when loading modules and such. Like the disk is still corrupt. But ive repaired the disk using fsck.
Also just want to say, pm-suspend crashed my system

Last edited by serrghi (2008-03-28 20:21:23)

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#1 2008-03-28 17:13:48

wont boot

#2 2008-03-28 18:17:26

Re: wont boot

#3 2008-03-28 18:41:19

Re: wont boot

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