On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:58 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:30, Jerome Lyles wrote:
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 04:11 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 05:59, Jerome Lyles wrote:
No output again. Hard to believe? Welcome to my world. Here's the relevant part of the boot.rootfsck file:
Could you make a similar change in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs, perhaps that's where it fails?! It just occurred to me that you will get the same error message regardless of which file system fails the fsck.
Found it! Operational error (8) on one of the other file systems.
Ok, I've had a look at the source of reiserfsck, and error code 8 could mean any one of a dozen error conditions. If you run fsck manually on the other partitions, do you perhaps get a more verbose error message?
There were two problems. On the second harddrive hdb5 was always being recognized by fsck as a swap partition (which it originally was) even though I would reformat it as other partitions. So finally I deleted it and rebooted, still into the same problem. So I checked my external firewire drive. Fsck failed on /dev/sda1; said there was no such device, so I deleted the entry in /etc/fstab, rebooted and I am now back in business! Thank You Anders and Patrick, Bruce, C.Richard, Sid, peter, ptilopteri and Carl! Success at last! I couldn't done it without you! Jerome