Johnny Fulcrum wrote: >No rescue option - how ever - I have tried playing with the device size >and the fs size - shrinking both in hopes of moving the bad sectors or >parts of the disk off the mount. I was able to shrink the reiserfs >using resize_reiserfs and then using cfdisk shrink the device (/dev/hda3) >partition size. If there is another partition large enough, one could copy the filesystem in /dev/hda3 there and specify a new root. >As mentioned above there was no "rescue option" but I was able to boot >using "gentoo root=/dev/hda3" from the boot prompt.... it hangs at: "gentoo root=/dev/hda3" is essentially what I meant by "rescue option". Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list