You might want to enter
init=/bin/sh
at the lilo prompt (assuming you have lilo) in order to skip the system
initializations and check that partition manually with the file system
debug/repair tools.
This doesn't look to me a UDMA matter since other partitions on the
same disk (hde) are flawless.
What stuff was there? /usr? /var?
> I'm having trouble with my debian 2.2r3 (potato) box. For the past two weeks
> its been sitting happily on the network, doing things as expected, but now it
> hangs during boot. I was running samba, and a few times whilst copying lots of
> files from a win2000 machine to the debian box I encountered errors - the last
> time this happened, I got the message "couldn't copy file, network name not
> found" on my win2000 machine. Then it seemed my debian box had disapeared off
> the network (as far as ping, ssh, smb went). I tried pinging from other
> machines and they all couldn't contact my box. As my machine was now sitting
> in
> a cupboard with no monitor or keyboard, I elected to just power down and
> power-up again (bad idea). The machine wouldn't reappear on the network, so I
> lugged a monitor and keyboard to it - turns out its hanging during boot. It
> gets to fsck, where it says that one partition wasn't cleanly mounted, at
> which
> point it freezes and doesn't boot any further. Oh yes, before this point it
> does appear to do a check of some sort on a partition - the progress meter
> appears and goes up to 100% and disapears.
>
> I've put up a digital photo of the screen at the point the machine hangs at
> http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~lard/fsck.hang.jpg
>
> My system has done fsck partition integrity checks before without having any
> problems. Could this problem be anything to do with the fact the hard disk is
> connected as a UDMA66 device and not a normal IDE drive? When I installed it,
> I
> used the UDMA66 flavour kernel and had no problems...
>
> cheers
> alex
>
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