On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:48:38AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Take a deep breath. Breathe out. > > > > OK. If you weren't having troubles with modules I'd be more > > worried. Since you seem to be having troubles with modules, its > > possible that the correct module for your drive/controller/whatever > > isn't being loaded by udev and whatever made your initrd. > > > > If you don't have a knoppix as someone suggested, boot the install > > CD in rescue mode and do the same thing. > > Thanks for the suggestion - would that "business-card" size cdrom work > for that? I'll burn a cd, would take that one, unless that one won't > work as rescue CD. > > Am hoping I can do a full fsck on the root disc just in case; shutdown > -r -F now` doesn't seem to force that on the ext3 file system, is > there a configuration to force a full fsck?
Hi Joris, I don't know if the business-card iso will work since I've never used it. I'm on dialup and it doesn't have ppp support. The netinst.iso isn't that much bigger (it just won't fit on a business card size CD) and does have rescue mode. However, either should be able to give you a shell where you can run e2fsck -f. If you really want to exercise the disk, do e2fsck -f -c -c to do a full read/write test of the filesystem. This has the advantage of forcing the drive firmware to remap any bad blocks that have cropped up. Yes, I know, that should happen transparently all the time, but then again, shutdown -F should actually force a filesystem check. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
