Kiran Hampal Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hi there, Recently I installed Win7 on a seperate partition - everything went smoothly, and it obvious removed grub. I know how to restore grub via live cd. So I got out my Mandriva 2009 live cd and booted up - strangely it didnt work - so I burned a fresh copy. I tried again. However it wanted me to 'repair filesystem' and I'm stuck here. Its not a problem with my burners, because any I've tried several. It's not a problem with my .iso image since its the same one I used to install Mandriva in the first place. Help?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiran Hampal Posted February 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Well now it does boot, after wiping the entire Win7 and Mandriva Partition... Is life always this hard...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Not always, but we don't know what Windows 7 screwed up. An installation shouldn't touch the Linux partitions, but then you said you had an error to repair the filesystem. So, either your partition did have a problem it needed fixing, with fsck, or that it was screwed by Windows. I'd say, probably Windows was the problem. Better off without it :) Answering your second question, yes life is always this hard with Microsoft! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiran Hampal Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the reply. Right, I reinstalled I repartitioned my hdd. Now I'm getting this error when trying to mount my Partition: An error occured mounting partition UUID=0b771208-deba-4899-a298-22e50238277a in directory /mnt/install failed. And get this popup: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. I've never had this error before. Anybody know why? EDIT: Seemed to be a problem with ext3 filesystem, I've switched to ReiserFS. Edited February 2, 2009 by Kiran Hampal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 (edited) Mandriva 2009.0 uses UUID instead of hard-coded partition names. Unfortunately the UUID does change when re-partitioning (even if just shrinking/expanding) -- at least that is my experience. My guess from the frist pass of yr message is that Mandriva is looking for a partition with UUID which no longer exists. Suggest you boot with a live CD and run following (as root): fdisk -l /dev/sda blkid /dev/sda1 Command 1 is to identify what partitions exist on sda (first hard disk) -- change as needed. Make a note of the partitions containing linux file systems. Assume for sake of argument this is 'sda1'. To find out the UUID for /dev/sda1 you issue command 2. Lastly edit /etc/fstab on your hard disc (not on the livecd) to correct/reflect trhe UUID(s) as you learned them. Edited February 2, 2009 by pindakoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiran Hampal Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 (edited) Hi, thanks for that info - but it installed fine with ReiserFS. Only the problem is when I boot into Mandriva I get this: Please appen a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) I'm now trying to boot from live cd on mandriva again, but getting a billion SquashFS errors. I'll now try and boot into Ubuntu live cd, my 3rd favourite linux distro, and see if I can use Pinkdakoe's method there. Edited February 2, 2009 by Kiran Hampal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 I'm planning to upgrade to 2009 soon, but the changing partition names sound like shifting sands I don't want to get into. Is there a way to upgrade to 2009 without switching to UUID? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiran Hampal Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 I've just checked fstab and everything is correct. Any ideas why I'm getting this kernel panic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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