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[Rajko M <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Abrahams wrote:
> On Sunday 17 September 2006 3:26 pm, Don Raboud wrote:
>> On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
>>> On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:11 pm, rmyster wrote:
>>>> what is the output of "ll /boot" and "ls /boot/grub" ?
>>> It seems that I have a directory /boot/boot that has the same stuff, more
>>> or less, as /boot (aside from the obvious recursion).  That seems to be a
>>> likely source of the problem.  How that came about I don't know.
>> I think it is supposed to be this way.  That way, whether the "parent" (for
>> lack of a better term) in grub is "/" or "/boot", under the parent it will
>> always be able to find a "/boot".  "/boot/boot" is a symlink to "."
> 
> Yes, I see the symlink and that explains it (plus some other mysteries).
> 
> I wonder if that could be related to the "inconsistent filesystem structure" 
> error 16 I've been getting.
> 
> Paul

Paul,

Changing motherboard can change how grub and kernel see the hard disk
geometry. GRUB is using BIOS, and kernel has its own ideas about that.
That can explain that grub see file system inconsistency, but fsck doesn't.

Run system repair from CD/DVD and see what that will produce. Maybe
somebody else has idea how to get out of this without system repair.

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Regards,
Rajko.
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