Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to rescue to lost ext3 partition ??
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:32:20
Message-Id: 200608160028.35889.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to rescue to lost ext3 partition ?? by "Jesús Guerrero" <6thpink@terra.es>
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4 Alle 00:10, mercoledì 16 agosto 2006, Jesús Guerrero ha scritto:
5 > > hi all ,
6 > > I tried to resize my gentoo (ext3) partion with the help of
7 > > "partition magic". everything goes correct but in the completion it
8 > > gave some error. didn't know exactly what was that. Then i reboot
9 > > the system and find out that grub was lost and giving error 17.
10 > > ===========================================
11 > > error 17
12 > > This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
13 > > filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
14 > > ===========================================
15 > >
16 > > Now after some efforts I somehow manage to install grub again with
17 > > the help of a Gentoo live cd. But I have no clue for how to get
18 > > back my gentoo partition. Is there any way to rescue that
19 > > parition?? following are some useful info.
20 > > ===========================================
21 > > gentoo ext partion is ..../dev/sda13
22 > >
23 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
24 > >-------- ------------------ Using /dev/sda
25 > > (parted) p
26 > > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 160GB
27 > > Disk label type: msdos
28 > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
29 > > 1 32kB 11GB 11GB primary fat32 boot, lba
30 > > 2 11GB 160GB 149GB extended lba
31 > > 5 11GB 24GB 13GB logical fat32
32 > > 6 24GB 45GB 21GB logical ntfs
33 > > 7 45GB 67GB 21GB logical ntfs
34 > > 8 67GB 88GB 21GB logical ntfs
35 > > 9 88GB 108GB 19GB logical fat32
36 > > 10 108GB 140GB 32GB logical ntfs
37 > > 11 140GB 141GB 1077MB logical linux-swap
38 > > 12 141GB 148GB 7230MB logical ext3 boot
39 > > 13 148GB 156GB 7830MB logical
40 > > (parted)
41 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
42 > >-------- ------------------ root@flukebox:/home/flukebox# dmesg|tail
43 > > |grep sda13 [17182864.744000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on
44 > > dev sda13. root@flukebox:/home/flukebox#
45 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
46 > >-------- -----------------
47 > >
48 > >
49 > > please let me know if there is anyway to rescue ??
50 > > Thanks in advance.
51 > > ~jaiks
52
53 I had the same problem (but with the gentoo graphic installer!).
54 You need gpart it can rescue all partitions and rebuild the superblocks.
55 Only a problem: I see that it is masked with -amd64 keyword. I don't
56 know why!
57 Luigi
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