Kernel panic - Confused partitions

[Tommy Reynolds]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 02:12:45 +0200, Net Masker wrote:

> I boot with the first cd-rom of redhat in rescue mode, I checked my
> "lilo.conf" file and it was OK!!
> My ext3 root partition is on /dev/hda8 and I run:
> mke2fs /dev/hda8
> tune2fs ...
> tune2fs -j /dev/hda#
> e2fsck ...
> (for all my /dev/hda# without understanding what am I doing exactly and
> taking some superblock errors at first...)

Well, when you ran "mke2fs /dev/hda8" you erased everything already
in that partition.

If you are seeing superblock errors, your disk is probably going bad.

Another re-install is in order, so we can check the disk without
worrying about corrupting anything.

1)  Boot into rescue mode again.

2)  Manually run 

	# fdisk /dev/hda

    and lay out the partitions the way you want them.

3)  Build a filesystem on each partition.  Use a command like this:

	# mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/hda1
	# mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/hda2
	# mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/hda3

    and so on.  The "-c" switch performs a surface analysis of the
    media, looking for bad blocks.  If you get errors, you need a new
    drive.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!