[ale] /dev/hda3 location lost

[Dow Hurst]

I finished an ftp install of SuSE 7.3 last night.  The machine had:
/dev/hda1 as /boot and formatted as ext3fs
/dev/hda2 as swap  and formatted as swap
/dev/hda3 as /     and formatted as reiserfs

After the install linuxrc/Yast1 ran lilo and rebooted successfully.  I
thought I was fine in terms of MBR, partition info, and filesystem
locations.  After getting X configured I changed /etc/inittab to
runlevel 5 and issued "sync;init 6" to reboot.  The machine shutdown and
began coming.  Lilo found the kernel and ran thru the boot sequence up
to trying to locate the / partition and then failed with a message with
something about:

/dev/hda3 not being found in the reiserfs superblock.  There were some
device numbers that looked like kernel type partition identifiers
included such as 03:03:0 or some such thing in the messages.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to transcribe the error before leaving
for work so I don't have the specifics, however, I can send that
tonight.  Does anyone have any idea what has happened and a way to fix
it?  Should I try to download a boot disk and boot to a linuxrc
"miniroot"?  I could run reiserfs --rebuildtree doing that but this
seems like a different problem to me.  Should a miniroot rescue sequence
have me look at /etc/fstab and/or rerun lilo?  However, the kernel was
located properly and lilo seems to be working properly for its purpose. 
This seems to be a filesystem or partition information mismatch
problem.  Not familiar with this.

The ftp install had originally created and formatted the partitions,
then the package download hung when the DSL IP changed.  I had to kill
linuxrc and restart the process (which worked with linuxrc finding and
not redownloading the packages already downloaded).  Linuxrc did not
find the /boot or /dev/hda1 at first but did find /dev/hda3 right away
so I had to manually mount /dev/hda1 after copying kernel and boot.b
files over.  Reran lilo and the install seemed happy after the reboot as
described when the install finished.  It was only after I rebooted the
"finished" system that the error cropped up.  Any ideas?
Thanks a bunch,
Dow



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