Disk Issues

[Derek Broughton]

Larry Hartman wrote:

> I have a single hard drive partitioned 4 ways:
> 
> /dev/hda1  as  /
> /dev/hda2  as swap
> /dev/hda3  as /home ext3
> /dev/hda4  as /media/hda4 vfat
> 
> When booting I receive an fsck error telling me that the kernel does not
> recognize /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4  master boot records and then goes into
> Recovery mode as root.
> 
> I can do a shutdown -r now and it proceeds to boot into KDM, but can not
> log
> in because KDE does not find my home directories.   /etc/fstab file looks
> clean.
> 
> Need some suggestions to trace this out.  I have had this error before and
> ended up reloading....don't think it is necessary but do not know enough
> to fix it.

It shouldn't _care_ about "boot" records on hda3 and hda4.  I'd start by
commenting out hda3 and hda4 in your fstab.  Does it boot normally (albeit,
without your /home partition)?

If not, the real problem would seem to be on /, or with your grub
configuration that simply isnt looking at hda1 (but that seems unlikely, or
you'd never get there).

If that works fine, then (a) what's your fstab look like and (b) what's your
partition table look like (output from any of the partition tools will do).
-- 
derek