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pge07beb@××××××××××××××××××××.de wrote: |
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> Hi gentoo-users, |
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> I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but |
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> since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the |
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> web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able |
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> to do, was pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down. |
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> I was never able to boot my system since then. |
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> It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or |
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> likewise) |
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There was good advice from the other users here, but also try a live CD |
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with a more recent kernel (Gentoo 2008.0-r1 for example, or something |
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else like openSUSE 11). Also, if removing the journal doesn't work, try |
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to mount it as ext2 (ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 so doing |
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that is perfectly OK). |
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As to the cause of this, I suspect a hardware failure due to overheating |
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(laptops tend to do that if you don't open them and give them a thorough |
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cleaning each 10 months or so). I'm an overclocker and things like this |
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can happen when a CPU or chipset overheats (corrupted data starts to get |
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written on disk). The other possibility is that the drive is dying |
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(damaged sectors). |
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