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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > 	            echo "fsck failed.  Please repair manually and reboot. The
> > > root" echo "file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it"
> >
> > But that is the error message that gets printed, right? OK, for the
> > moment I'm baffled
> >
> > 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?