A couple of times my machine has been brought down by a power failure and I have got similar messages to the original poster, during the file system check after bootup failed. I have all my files on a single partition, plus swap and dos. Kernel 1.0.2? from memory, xdm doing logins. I boot from a custom boot disc although I also tried an older kernel boot disc.
This has not been a problem up to now, I just ran e2fsck as root, as promted during the boot failure, and selected the default actions when prompted. But the last time this happened, when I ran e2fsck (-n -o from memory - whatever it prompts) it seemed to fix the problem as before (changing some counts, etc), but when I then tried a reboot, it failed just after starting all the daemons (the fs was passed clean). Seems to be that my root filesystem is mounting read-only so the X startup fails. Xdm does not fire up, but I can log in as root from the console, but reboot and shutdown do not seem to work (some commands do), so I have to power down and run e2fsck again - with the same result. As my system is vitually unusable (I am writing this from work), I apologise for the sparse info, but can anyone give me any clue as to how I can get the system up, so I can read the info and see what's gone wrong? I have some stuff I would prefer not to lose, so I would like to avoid a total reinstall. Ed > > > > Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X.... Is it a bad, bad > > > > thing, > > > > or just somewhat bad? > > > > > > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919, > > > > sector=1280358 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358 > > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025, > > > > sector=1280474 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280474 > > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025, > > > > sector=1280476 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280476 > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .