As I'm no expert, this is the sort of circumstance in which I boot from the install CD, select expert and upgrade, choose to install nothing and let it fix the problem. It will almost certainly give you a bootable system in 10 - 20 minutes.
No science, but it will probably work. cheers Brian On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 07:42, ngn wrote: > Hi folks...I have the following trouble: I have a cd-copier & a cd-reader, > Due to I want to perform direct cd copying I made some changes in fstab and > lilo.conf. > > For example: when in fstab appeared /dev/cdrom1 I put instead > dev=/dev/scd1 (This was to made SCSI simulation on the cd-reader) > I get both the cd-r & the cd-wr recognized by the front-ends of burning > although I cannot make any "on-the-fly" copies [This is another > problem!!!]... > > The problem starts to arose when I tried to install some packages from the > download cd's... When Software Manager asks for the cd1, I put it on the > reader, and it ejects me the cd like it was a wrong one!!! > > Well, here is when the problem arises!!!!!!...Due to my big ignorance I open > the file fstab and when it says dev=/dev/scd1 [IT IS MY CD-R] I put > something like this "dev=/dev/scd1,/dev/cdrom" > > After that I rebooted and neither I can run the label failsafe nor the > "normal" linux entrie on lilo. Moreover I cannot bot in "linux 2-2.secure". > > When I tried to boot in any of those entries it stops in the "Checking root > filesystem" step with a msg like this : > " The Superblocks on the device are corrupted, try to run an fsck" and it > says more things that I do not remember now. > However, one thing sounds strange for me.....It's says that I had to run > fsck when my root partition is on a journallised file system [EXT3] > > Well, I know that this post might be very large, but... Unless I have a > solution, I'll have to re-install Linux-Mandrake 8.1 > > Thanks in Advance > > Nicolas Gomez > Montevideo, URUGUAY > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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