[afnog] SuSE /root problem

[Mike Barnard]

thanks loads, i did a system update and re-wrote the root partition info
again. i came up again. though the strangest thing is that the logs have
nothing of what may have happened. i guess it was a case of harware
problems.

> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:16:19AM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote:
>> Hi, i got a problem with a SuSE 7.2. there was no hard disk activity,
>> nothing was working. i rebooted and it cant come up. ran hdd test and
>> still cant boot, ive done a repair installation and i get an error that
>> YaST cannot find a valid root partition.
>
> 1. Is the hard drive detected at all? (If booting from a rescue CD, do you
>    see messages about hda? At power-up does the BIOS detect the hard
> drive?)
>
> 2. Can you read blocks from it? Boot from rescue CD, try
>       dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null count=512
>    (which will read the first 512 0.5K blocks, or 256KB of data)
>
> 3. Is there a valid partition table on the hard drive? (i.e. boot from
>    rescue CD, run 'fdisk /dev/hda', use 'p' to print partition table,
>    what does it show?)
>
> If 1 or 2 fails, then it looks like you have a low-level hardware problem:
> the drive has died completely, the controller has died completely, the
> cable
> is duff, or so on. Examining kernel boot messages carefully might be able
> to
> show if the controller is OK or not; or just plug in a different HD and
> see
> if you can boot that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>


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