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

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:36 am

If you have a native install small enough you can create a loop filesystem on e: copy the contents of your hda2 into it then reformat the drive in ext3 and copy everything back. If you have too much stuff installed on to your linux partition you could swap your harddisk into a PC and copy the files onto a drive there. Or you could move the partition using Acronis. Copy the data from the old partition to the new one, reformat the old one, copy the data back to the old one, delete the new one and resize the old one back using acronis.

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:58 am

nobspangle wrote:If you have a native install small enough you can create a loop filesystem on e: copy the contents of your hda2 into it then reformat the drive in ext3 and copy everything back. If you have too much stuff installed on to your linux partition you could swap your harddisk into a PC and copy the files onto a drive there. Or you could move the partition using Acronis. Copy the data from the old partition to the new one, reformat the old one, copy the data back to the old one, delete the new one and resize the old one back using acronis.

Hi

Thanks for the pointers.

The loop file system sounds the easiest.

I’m using the default pro install, and haven’t installed anything else yet (until I get reiserfs off it)

How do I create the loop file system on e: ?

I’ll have to have a read, else pls enlighten me J

cheers
scooby

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:41 pm

To create the loop file system

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fatx/e/rootfs count=2500 bs=1024k
yes | mkreiserfs -f /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs

Then you will have to boot your system using the stardust CD use ctrl+c to get out of the installer.

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mkdir /mnt/rootfs
mkdir /mnt/hda2
mount -t reiserfs -o loop /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs /mnt/rootfs
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
cp -avx /mnt/hda2/* /mnt/rootfs/
umount /mnt/hda2
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
cp -avx /mnt/rootfs/* /mnt/hda2/
umount /mnt/rootfs
umount /mnt/hda2

Reboot and check everything still works then

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rm /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs

By the way I have never used stardust so I am assuming that it mounts the Xbox E drive by default on startup in /mnt/fatx/e
Also I am assuming you have 2.5Gb of free space on E for the rootfs I am also assuming that as you haven't yet installed anything in Gentoox that you won't ming when I don't have a clue what I am on about and everything goes wrong, still you've got to learn somehow

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:38 pm

thats a clever idea nobspangle... if only i could do a native.. need games or i will shrivel up

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:35 pm

I have a native install where the F partition should be and the rest of my Xbox works as normal I can still play games same as anybody else

fuz · Post by **fuz** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 10:36 pm

my games are on f, the originals where stolen from my house

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:31 pm

nobspangle wrote:To create the loop file system
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fatx/e/rootfs count=2500 bs=1024k
yes | mkreiserfs -f /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs
Then you will have to boot your system using the stardust CD use ctrl+c to get out of the installer.
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mkdir /mnt/rootfs
mkdir /mnt/hda2
mount -t reiserfs -o loop /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs /mnt/rootfs
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
cp -avx /mnt/hda2/* /mnt/rootfs/
umount /mnt/hda2
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
cp -avx /mnt/rootfs/* /mnt/hda2/
umount /mnt/rootfs
umount /mnt/hda2
Reboot and check everything still works then
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rm /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs
By the way I have never used stardust so I am assuming that it mounts the Xbox E drive by default on startup in /mnt/fatx/e
Also I am assuming you have 2.5Gb of free space on E for the rootfs I am also assuming that as you haven't yet installed anything in Gentoox that you won't ming when I don't have a clue what I am on about and everything goes wrong, still you've got to learn somehow

Thanks for the tips

This fails >>> mount -t reiserfs -o loop /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs /mnt/rootfs

still trying variations, probably will end up doing it on the pc.

cheers
scooby

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:01 pm

What is the error you get?
if you get a "No such file or directory" then I assume that the e drive isn't mounted automatically in stardust.
to solve this check which mounts are defined using mount you are looking for something like this

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# mount
/dev/hda50 on /mnt/fatx/e type fatx (rw)

or this

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# mount
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part50 on /mnt/fatx/e (rw)

if this line is missing (there will be others) you need to mount the e drive manually

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mkdir /mnt/fatx
mkdir /mnt/fatx/e
mount -t fatx /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part50 /mnt/fatx/e

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:35 pm

Thx for the quick response.

changed this

mount -t reiserfs -o loop /mnt/fatx/e/rootfs /mnt/rootfs

for this:

mount -t reiserfs -o loop /mnt/e/rootfs /mnt/rootfs

and it all seams to work nicely

just need to change the fstab without an editor now

cheers

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:50 pm

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sed -e "s/reiserfs/ext3    " /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab
mv /tmp/fstab /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab
chmod 644 /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab

that should sort you out

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:58 pm

nobspangle wrote:
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sed -e "s/reiserfs/ext3    " /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab
mv /tmp/fstab /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab
chmod 644 /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab
that should sort you out

Did it the harder way

but its done now, this is a neater way for me doing my other xbox, thx.

Still not quite there. There must be somewhere else that the disks are mounted, not just fstab.

The machine halts, as it can't find a reiserfs on hda2.

Is there a fstab in the initrd.gz on /mnt/fats/e ? thats mounts the disks on boot?

I'll mount the initrd and see if I can find anything...

cheers scooby

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:57 pm

There is I think it's in linuxrc you've probably found it by now
you can probablly do a "sed -e "s/reiserfs/ext3 /" /mnt/initrd/linuxrc" or something similar to sort it out

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:16 pm

nobspangle wrote:There is I think it's in linuxrc you've probably found it by now
you can probablly do a "sed -e "s/reiserfs/ext3 /" /mnt/initrd/linuxrc" or something similar to sort it out

Thanks for your help on this!

That files, got alot of crap in it, do I have to do something special with it?

Also do you know how to package the mounted initrd back as a file.

More reading, ho hum!

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:05 pm

once you have mounted the initrd loop (say in /mnt/initrd)

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sed -e "s/reiserfs/ext3/" /mnt/initrd/linuxrc > /tmp/linuxrc
rm -rf /mnt/initrd/linuxrc
mv /tmp/linuxrc /mnt/initrd/linuxrc
chmod 700 /mnt/initrd/linuxrc
umount /mnt/initrd

to gzip the initrd file just type "gzip ./initrd" or whatever path you have the initrd in

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:11 pm

Ok, followed this, everything looked fine.

Modified the initrd, gzipped and booted.

Xbox complains there is no initrd!?

damn so close, but no joy! yet