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Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: nefkho on June 08, 2005, 04:56:21 AM

hi,

my 6.5 wont boot anymore here here is the problem:

vfs: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0 (3,3)
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysinit,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2


any one can help me please...

:(

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: nigeltodd on June 08, 2005, 06:01:52 AM

Easiest is probably to reload SME, and then restore from the backup you have!

Don't you?

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: nefkho on June 08, 2005, 06:22:28 AM

:-? too bad i dont have the backup .... one lesson learned make a backup always hehehe thanks.

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: nigeltodd on June 08, 2005, 07:26:53 AM

"there are only 2 types of people - those who have lost data, and those who are going to!"

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: nefkho on June 08, 2005, 08:59:49 AM

i tried mounting the drive to winxp but said that the partition is unformated anyway for me to access the drive?

please.

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: ergozd on June 08, 2005, 10:23:05 AM

May be you could try to boot up your system with a Live CD distro like Knoppix and see whether or not you can access your harddrive.

Title: sme 6.5 wont boot badly need help
Post by: mbachmann on June 08, 2005, 12:43:43 PM

Try http://www.sysresccd.org/. Hope for you that the drive is not toasted.