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>

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