pro native install: reiser borked: can't login to repair?

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:12 pm

Hi all

Installed pro native (good work Shallax! - looking good!)

Also had a power fail! reiser didn't recover (hopefully ext3 support will be in future versions of pro?

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USB keyboard doesn't work when the disks check fails, and I can't login to repair the partitions.

Any tips or is this a re-install?

Thx

scooby

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:08 pm

reinstall would be easiest, failing that you could fix it over the network if you can get it to bash

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:28 pm

Thx

ssh hasn't been started at that point ... no ip address either, so the network access looks a bit dodgy.

thx anyway

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:31 pm

all you have left to try is the fresh install

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sorry dude its not lookin good

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:14 pm

re-install underway

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:25 pm

better luck this time eh

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:40 pm

Thx, although its more like I need to spend some time on getting ext3 working instead of reiser,

Its not as fast, but damn it can recover from crashes ..

cya

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:50 pm

i thought that we where using ext2 not reiser...

ext3 would be a good idea especially due to the fact that the xbox is unstable at best

spathi · Post by **spathi** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:55 pm

fuz - in native install you can use whatever file system you like

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:00 pm

well when i work out usb2 then i will have an external hdd and a native on that

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:00 am

spathi wrote:fuz - in native install you can use whatever file system you like

So how do you do that then?

According to my fstab in pro /dev/hda2 is reiserfs

Please enlighten me

spathi · Post by **spathi** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:15 am

fuz - you get USB2 support working and ill eat my hat*, dont want to be pesimistic but i dont think its gonna happen

scoobydu -

are you using native on f or on the whole hdd (running your xbox as a linux box only)?.

if its the entire drive there isnt any reason you cant use ext3. I haven't done it myself as id get skinned alive if my box couldn't play games. i don't have specifics, as i haven't read up on it, but it should just be a matter of enabling ext 3 support if it isnt supported (im assuming this would be via the kernel..) and then formatting the drive in ext 3.

of course i dont know if gentoox will install on a ext 3 formatted drive?

as for native f install im unsure, as im not sure how it works while keeping your xbox stuff. If resier fs can do it, so can ext 3..

maybe i should have said "in theory" you can install any file system you want.

maybe Shallax or someone who better understand the xbox partitioning could answer this?

* i don't have a hat, and now that i've said this the impossible will happen and someone will figure this out.

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:37 am

spathi

Yep, you are right. I'm sure you can use ext3. I'm using native 'f' install.

Its the xbox specifics I'm not sure of. Should be able to move the data on /hda2 'somewhere else', reformat it to ext3, then move the data back. Change fstab for /hda2 to ext3 and that should be it.

Maybe I am making this too complicated??? perhaps I just need repartition the f drive to what I want by fdisk /dev/hda55 then create 3 partitions?.

>>>>

My gentoo servers have separate /home area's and the boot partition is ext2/3.

eg

/hda1 = swap
/hda2 = ext3 mounted on /
/hda3 = ext3 or reiserfs or whatever the xbox kernel has in it, mounted on /home

This way the data area /home is in whatever the user wants and prefers.

As well as mounting usb2 drives as /home with all the user data on it!

IMHO ext3 is 'safer' as a boot '/' partition.

cheers
scooby

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:44 am

i will get usb2 to work

its either going to mean unsoldering and resoldering a surface mount chip
or by stroke of luck its a flashable chip and i flash it

but i will succeed even if i have to by a usb2 controller for a pc and pull it to bits

spathi · Post by **spathi** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:52 am

scooby,

i agree that ext3 is safer for boot, it has always served me well in the past and has more of a tendancy to recover then other filesystems. it is a little slower the reiserFS, but as you say if its just your boot partition, its not going to effect much in the way of performance.

I think what you propose should work, it makes sense to me to just repartition and reformat (and of course change the fstab! didnt even think of that!). if i had a box with native installed id give this ago for sure. unfortunatley i have a girlfriend who loves her roms and games (on the f drive).

although these boxes are so cheap.. maybe i should just pick up another one