banjo Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 HELP! I installed a new nvidia driver and everything seemed to be OK. I rebooted several times and all was well. I ran doom3 and now when I reboot, Linux tells me that it cannot mount /dev/hda1 because the file system is not recognizable. It says perhaps the superblock is corrupt. I booted the install CD in rescue mode and told it to mount the drives. It did so successfully. It all looks OK. I booted to knoppix and ran fsck on /dev/hda1 and it tells me that it is clean. When I mount /dev/hda1 in knoppix all of the data is there. Any ideas why Linux cannot mount my drive? Is there anything I can do? Can anybody help? I am over my head. I would post /etc files etc, but I cannot get at them because I am on another computer. Thanks in advance Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 did you try to boot your system in failsafe mode already? it can correct this sort of problems most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Never mind............. I actually found the answer in the topic: "Mandrakelinux is destroyed!!!! - SOLVED, unbelievable ..... i" and should not have asked this question again. Sorry sorry sorry .............. I did not search long enough to find the answer. The Nvidia README says that it may be necessary to edit /etc/security/console.perms and delete the line with <dri> in it................ if the permissions on the nvidia files were reported too restictive.....which it did.............. and which I did....... After that I could run Doom3 ok, but the reboot failed. And then I couldn't run anything any more. So I went back into the file using knoppix and put the line back and changed the permissions for <dri> from 0600 to 0666 and it boots........ and the graphics programs run. Whew! This is the best board ever. Linux rocks. Now, if you will excuse me................ I am going to go do a backup............. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Just as a followup note to this fiasco......... For any other noobs out there............. Go here: http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.php and get knoppix on a CD. It absolutely saved my bacon today. It will cost you $0.99 plus $1.50 postage for a total of $2.49. Don't wait until the crash to order it. I have no financial interest in edmunds, but I can recognize when my bacon has been saved. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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