On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:37:56PM -0500, RR wrote: > During boot-up however, I see these errors: > > Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1: > The superblock could not be read 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 superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> You'll get this message in one of a few cases: * the device in question (here /dev/sdb1) does not, in fact, contain an ext2 filesystem (this is most likely); * the device is encrypted and it was not decrypted properly (bad password or such); * something overwrote the beginning of the partition; or * the system is in a really bad shape and the data is seriously corrupted. Based on what you said in your earlier post (about /dev/sdb being your Solaris disk), the first choice is likely correct. You probably need to figure out where your /boot partition is located and update /etc/fstab. > This is obviously on the Disk with Solaris on it and that is NOT an ext3 FS. > Should I just ignore these errors? You need to fix /etc/fstab so that your /boot partition is properly referenced. Otherwise, when you upgrade your kernel, the data will be written in the wrong place and you won't be able to use the new kernel. If you can boot Debian, then your /etc/silo.conf probably contains the correct location of your /boot partition, so you should use that. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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