If I try and mount /dev/sda7 while booted from the live CD I get the
following error (running "sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda7 /media/root"):
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda7,
missing codepage or other error
I'm sure that it was an ext3 partition. Going on the line "bad superblock"
am I right in assuming it's totally b0rked (to sue a technical term)?
:-/
-Alasdair-
On 2/27/07, Alasdair Ross <alasdair.ross@???> wrote:
>
> When I boot using the Kubuntu Live CD I can see the partitions (although
> there seems to be a mysterious 1Kb partition, sda3) but it hasn't mounted
> any of them
> Will a grub re-install help or am I likely to have problems with the
> partition table? If I do need to just re-install GRUB then what is the
> command? Google says: "grub-install /dev/hda1" Is it that simple?
>
> Many thanks,
> -Alasdair-
>
> On 2/27/07, Alasdair Ross <alasdair.ross@???> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I thought things seemed to be running a bit too smoothly...
> >
> > In the last 2 days I have had problems booting. I'm running Kubuntu
> > 6.10 on an Acer Aspire 5633. One of 3 events would occur:
> > 1. It would boot but after the KDE splash I would just get a white
> > screen and nothing would happen (no CAPS-lock light when I pushed the key so
> > I assume keyboard entry didn't work either)
> > 2. It would boot but I'd get no sound
> > 3. It would boot, I'd get sound, but I wouldn't be able to dial a PPP
> > connection
> >
> > Occasionally I'd boot into a working system. However, on booting I'd
> > get a load of HEX numbers whizz by at the filesystem check stage and it
> > would say that errors were found but not corrected.
> > I could boot using the Recovery mode entry in GRUB and, after checking
> > the man pages several times I attempted to use fsck to fix what I assumed
> > was a filesystem error. I ran "fsck -a -A" thinking this would run through
> > the entries in fstab and automatically fix errors. I don't think this is
> > what it did.
> > Anyhow, I'm now presented with a system where, upon turning on the
> > laptop GRUB begins to load but stops with: Error 17.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what I've done and how I can fix it?
> >
> > On the disk are the following partitions (as far as I can remember):
> > FAT32 ACERIMAGE (Acer backup image)
> > FAT32 WinXP MCE
> > ext3 /dev/sda5 /home
> > swap /dev/sda6 /swap
> > ext3 /dev/sda7 /
> >
> > As always, I'd be incredibly grateful for any help you can give. I'd
> > really like not to have to reinstall everything as I was just getting
> > settled.
> >
> > -Alasdair-
> >
>
>
