In the past month my root folder has become corrupted 3 times. General system restore doesn’t help and installing the default kernel doesn’t help. I don’t expect a forum to be able to help with the corruption issus but is there any way to restore root without a complete re-install? It’s a little time consuming.
On 06/02/2011 10:36 PM, mlmack wrote:
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> In the past month my root folder has become corrupted 3 times.
Describe “corrupted”.
> General
> system restore doesn’t help
What is that “system restore”? First time I see that mentioned.
> and installing the default kernel doesn’t
> help. I don’t expect a forum to be able to help with the corruption
> issus but is there any way to restore root without a complete
> re-install? It’s a little time consuming.
What openSUSE version do you have?
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Saludos/Cheers
Carlos E.R.
(testing 11-4 Celadon on Lilliput)
If you really want to know, corrupted meant the mbr is trashed and the sound drivers are missing - even to insmod. Look for System Restoration in Yast. I use 11.3.
Grub might be fixable but I don’t know how. This time I put it in the root folder instead of mbr. I THINK drivers are in the kernel which should mean it’s corrupted.
The grub error message is ‘unknown file system, cannot mount partition’.
On 06/03/2011 08:06 AM, mlmack wrote:
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> If you really want to know, corrupted meant the mbr is trashed and the
> sound drivers are missing - even to insmod.
what could be trashing the mbr?
are you dual booting to another system?
during the past month (when this has happened three times) did the
machine take in kernel updates or other changes requiring a
reboot…and, were any of those required reboots done by a system other
than openSUSE? (if so, the mrb was not ‘trashed’ but only reset to allow
the other system to complete its update process–which included a
reboot)…
or (since you have given zero insight into your hardware) how is the
health of your disk? maybe it is failing–i sure can see no connection
between the mbr corruption and loosing a sound driver…
are you experiencing system lockups, of unexpected system crashes, or
maybe pulling the plug, or anything else which might leave the disk in
an unclean and/or jumbled state?
to directly answer you question (with FAR too little info given to
actually help):
Q1. is there any way to restore root without a complete
re-install?
A: sure, restore from a system backup taken when all is well…but,
note, a restore process which depends on being able to boot will not
succeed if unable to boot because the mbr is trash…so, boot from a
live CD (or whatever) and run the restore from an external/optical disk,
or partition on the disk which is not within the area needing a restore
> Look for System Restoration in Yast. I use 11.3.
never use it myself…but no, it won’t be useful if the disk is so
trashed you can’t boot…it seems to me if you are having sound drivers
mysteriously disappear you might also expect any saved restore image to
be corrupted also…so, you really must find a more dependable place to
restore from…
of course, the best path is to discover and repair the root cause of the
corruption…
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[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
On 06/03/2011 08:06 AM, mlmack wrote:
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> If you really want to know
oh i forgot to say (with reference to above): of course he really wanted
to know, your initial post was so devoid of info as to make giving help
totally impossible…
which is exactly why i didn’t try to even guess an answer until i knew
more…
because all helpers here are unpaid volunteers i’d suggest you adjust
your attitude and read here if you have more questions:
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Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
With a complex problem that may or may not involve hardware; that isn’t easily replicable; that I probably don’t understand very well, I don’t expect a solution. What I would like is what I asked for: a faster way to restore. Two hours is too long.
On 06/03/2011 08:36 PM, mlmack wrote:
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> With a complex problem that may or may not involve hardware; that isn’t
> easily replicable; that I probably don’t understand very well, I don’t
> expect a solution. What I would like is what I asked for: a faster way
> to restore. Two hours is too long.
as said, restore from backup (which should be much faster than a
reinstall)…
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[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
On 2011-06-03 20:36, mlmack wrote:
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> With a complex problem that may or may not involve hardware; that isn’t
> easily replicable; that I probably don’t understand very well, I don’t
> expect a solution. What I would like is what I asked for: a faster way
> to restore. Two hours is too long.
A backup image.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)