This is on a Pro installation, totally up-to-date in all software, applicable config files, and magic patches. Here's how it went: I started up Gentoox, and at one point during the bootup, it gives me this message:
* Checking root filesystem...
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x700 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 760000/483749 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is NOT cleanly unmounted
Partition /dev/loop/0 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it
*Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ !! ]
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):_
Now I knew that I didn't do a hard shutdown, and that ReiserFS is pretty solid, so I hit Control-D on my usb keyboard. No responce. I entered root password. No responce. I tap the numlock key. No light. I can't SSH in, because sshd hasn't been started yet! Am I going to have to reinstall?
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
Q: HOW DO I RUN MAGIC ??
A: You run magic by not typing in capital letters.
Damn it! This is why I shouldn't be allowed intenet access. I've been busy in school, and have barely used gentoox since 2.0 home, before the days of sparkle. Thanks for reminding me.
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
Q: HOW DO I RUN MAGIC ??
A: You run magic by not typing in capital letters.
Similar thing happened to me a few months ago: I didn't have a working burner, or usb keyboard at the time so I FTP'd rootfs back to my main PC and fscked it... returned no errors. This probably isn't the sort of reply you're looking for but I wound up just reinstalling from scratch, then backing up rootfs onto my pc when I'd updated everything.
The problem is that you ran etc-update and replaced /etc/init.d/checkroot. http://gentoox.shallax.com/patch-files/uhoh.tbz2 << get that and somehow replace your checkroot with the one in there.
ShALLaX wrote:The problem is that you ran etc-update and replaced /etc/init.d/checkroot. http://gentoox.shallax.com/patch-files/uhoh.tbz2 << get that and somehow replace your checkroot with the one in there.
I know! I'll make another install, for the sole purpose of mounting the rootfs and putting czechroot on it. But that sounds like work. If only there was an xbox linux live-cd . . . made with xbox-catilyst . . .
well . . . if I put live compression on rootfs, and put on livecd-typish things . . . . . . . . . . . .
EDIT: ooh, /me just found dyne:bolic...
EDIT #2: damn, looks like dyne:bolic isn't an xbe...
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
Q: HOW DO I RUN MAGIC ??
A: You run magic by not typing in capital letters.