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Greetings all,

I need some advice:

This is the layout of my 40GB harddrive on my thinkpad 600
hda1 - / 5G
hda2 FAT32 13 G
hda3 /home 20G
hda4 /swap 700M (roughly)
these are primary partitions made in fdisk- nothing extended


It boots up into lilo manager- for linux(slackware 9.0) or win98se
try to load linux and get following errors:
swapon: cannot open etc/fstab: no such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: line 23: Testing filesystem status: Read-only file
system
Checking root filsystem:
fsck 1.32
Warning: couldn't open /etc/fstab: No such File/Dir
/sbin/e2fsck: Is a directory while trying to open /
/:
The Superblock could not be reda or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the uperblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

An error occured during the root filesystem check
you will now be given a chance to log into the system in a single-user
mode to fix the problem.
If you are using the ext2 filesystem, running 'e2fsck -v -y
<partition>'might help.....



okay what should i do to get this thing rolling?
is etx2 an extended partition? I know i used only primary ones
I typed in the command: swapon /dev/hda4
and it said: Adding Swap: 827336k swap-space (priority -1)
should this be added to some configuration file?
whats the deal with etc/fstab?
im at the root@none:/# looking confused. all i can see is thes strange
aquatic bird....

e2fsck -v -y /dev/hda1 resultsin>> /dev/hda1: clean, 137807/1281280
files, 525175/1281175 blocks

allthanks o the inspired linux guru whose favor shines upon i!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:13:51 -0800, Troll
<experiment@lewiston.com> wrote:
>
> okay what should i do to get this thing rolling?
> is etx2 an extended partition? I know i used only primary ones
Ext2 is a type of filesystem, like FAT or NTFS.

> I typed in the command: swapon /dev/hda4
> and it said: Adding Swap: 827336k swap-space (priority -1)
> should this be added to some configuration file?
It should be added to /etc/fstab, but judging from the error messages,
that file doesn't even exist.
> whats the deal with etc/fstab?
That's a good question. Is there anything at all in /etc?
Maybe you should reinstall, or try a more newbie-friendly distribution
such as Mandrake.

> im at the root@none:/# looking confused. all i can see is thes strange
> aquatic bird....
>
> e2fsck -v -y /dev/hda1 resultsin>> /dev/hda1: clean, 137807/1281280
> files, 525175/1281175 blocks
>
> allthanks o the inspired linux guru whose favor shines upon i!


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