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Post subject: boot tells me to repair partition/disk?
 Posted: Oct 11, 2008 - 06:34 PM
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Hi there. Let me tell you step by step what I did and what I got:
1. I got two hard disks, of which the first one (hda) has Windows XP and the second one (hdb) was to have sidux;
2. GParted on the sidux disc gave trouble, so I took my GParted Live CD;
3. I used GParted Live to partition hdb as follows: /dev/hdb1 (swap, ~3GB), /dev/hdb2 (ext3, root, ~10GB), /dev/hdb3 (ext3, the rest, for /home/username);
4. I reboot with the sidux x64 XFCE disc;
5. I start the live installer and go through the tabs to set stuff up;
6. installation seemed to go fine;
7. it says it' s been successful;
8. I reboot from hard disk;
9. I choose sidux to boot;
10. console screen shows information and starts checking file systems (I was surprised, but thought "What the heck....");
11. error: must manually repair via maintenance console (code 9, other time it was code 8);
12. I just press <Ctrl> <D> and the system boots.
Still, it just bothers me that something's wrong, and I don't know what.
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From the looks of it, my ~ folder is on hdb2 instead of hdb3. I simply "assumed" it would be on hdb3. Any help to fix this stuff or to properly reinstall with noobish steps appreciated. |
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Post subject: RE: boot tells me to repair partition/disk?
Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 12:09 AM
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Joined: Nov 01, 2007
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Welcome to sidux!
Since you haven't had a response yet, just to clarify, in step 12, it's the new sidux which boots?
It would be good to know where you installed grub, also, since you've got two hard drives.
As to ~ being on hdb2, that's normal. You might want to take a look at this in the Wiki.
http://www.sidux.com/index.php?module=p ... meDirHowTo
Hopefully someone who can really help will see your responses and have sufficient information to assist. I'd suspect it wouldn't do any harm to open a terminal and read man fsck, though.
regards,
rumbarg |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 10:23 AM
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Yes, in step 12 it's the new fresh sidux that booted. I have solved the thing, though, as I just repartitioned the disk with only hdb1 (swap) and hdb2 (root, home, etc.) and reinstalled. It was a fast installation anyway. Upon boot it again gave me some similar trouble, but it checked the disk and said it had corrected some errors and it had to reboot. After reboot it all seemed fine. Damn: what a fast system!
But, even though I enjoy it, I think I will have to try out either sidux x86 or Debian 4.0 x86. The reason being there's just one program I really miss which is ZSNES. That's the only one! Or I should get it working on 64-bit sidux somehow. |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 11:24 AM
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| Why do you use 64-bit? I'm may be on deep water now (I will soon know) but as I have learned so far there is not very much benefit for a normal user to have 64.bit sidux vs 32 bit. I think this has been up on the forum before. I have so far always used 32 bit sidux om my athlon 64. So If zsnes is important for you and thats not working in 64-bit and you are not running something which is very much better in 64-bit I suggest to change to 32-bit sidux. |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 11:53 AM
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The reason I want to use 64-bit is because I noticed greater performance during my Linux experiences. The system just seems faster and more responsive. (I have opened a thread asking how to get ZSNES working on 64-bit sidux, by the way: http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-12974.html ). It could be my imagination, but my 64-bit experience really seemed faster than my 32-bit one, and I'm not really the kind of person who would claim a thing so easily.
I just finished downloading sidux x86, and am anxious to give it a try. |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 12:25 PM
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Did you do a fsck in the maintenance console? I thought there were problems with partitions, which aren't done by the sidux installer.
Perhaps you could use the sidux live cd to do a fsck on the harddisks. |
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