my box is dead..

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-15 22:14:37

I haven't upgraded for more than a month and i did it tonight..After a reboot i see the message 'The superblock could not be read..' and so on.It says there is no a valid ext2 system but in fact mine is ext3 and that's how it's marked in the fstab.When I try to fdisk -l i see nothing..Everything was perfect before the ugprade..where could be the problem?

davidgurvich · 2010-02-15 22:24:24

Have you tried an fsck from the livecd?

pyther · 2010-02-15 22:49:22

If fdisk -l doesn't detect the drive this can indicate the sata/ide controller module isn't loaded or the drive isn't being detected at the bios level. So does the drive get detected at the BIOS level?

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-16 07:07:34

Could you give the fsck disk?
Well, fdisk -l doesnt detect anything.When i remove te 0 1 tags of the root partition in fstab i can boot successfully but i looks as if it can't load some modules.However, i use my own kernel and i updated the gcc as well as everything else and .. I guess it's something related to the fact that i didn't recompile the kernel after the upgrade?

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-16 15:06:14

Ok..it seemed that the udev and kernel version less than 2.6.27 are not compatible anymore.I finally did manage to boot however fdisk -l says i have no partitions.So does cfdisk.However, I have a root mounted partition..Any ideas?
EDIT- I have no /dev/sd* or /dev/hd* devices in my /dev however i have /dev/hda6 mounted as a root..?!

Last edited by Insane-Boy (2010-02-16 15:07:54)

pyther · 2010-02-16 15:46:25

You need to rewrite you post it makes no sense at all.

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-16 16:14:37

Please, excuse me.I'll try again.After a few hours of readin through google i found out that kernel version older than 2.6.27 is incompatible with the latest glibc.Consequently i updated the kernel to 2.6.32 and i tried again.The result was the same i couldn't boot and the errors was : http://pastebin.com/m7e3da403 .Then i edited my fstab (which looks like this : http://pastebin.com/m48381f91 ) and the change was that i disabled the fs check on bootup.Finally i booted up successfully but when i try to access my /dev/sd* or /dev/hd* they are gone.When i type 'fdisk -l' there is no output.As well as that cfdisk can't open the partitions.However, I'm writing from the same box which seems to have no partitions.I can't understand what's going on as i haven't touch anything.I hope it's more understandable now.

pyther · 2010-02-16 16:17:37

How are running fdisk -l as a user or root? If you are running it as a user, run it as root.

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-16 16:18:40

No output, http://pastebin.com/m6d33098d

pyther · 2010-02-16 16:29:31

Hmm that is odd, can you paste /etc/mtab (this shows what is currently mounted)

Insane-Boy · 2010-02-16 16:34:15

Here it is - http://pastebin.com/m3df1a5ee

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