I got the same error once when I was new to linux. If /dev/hda on your box is home to both linux and windows and you defragment in windows it screws up the partition table for linux, or something. Say you have a 2 gig drive, and you repartition, giving windows 1 gig and linux 1 gig. Windows still sees A: as being two gigs. No big deal, you know it's only a gig. But if you defrag in windows it creates problems. I don't think you can recover from that. I reinstalled when it happened to me. Sorry to be vague, I don't fully understand what gets screwed up, but it did happen to me, and I ended up having to reinstall. Perhaps Bodo or someone more qualified can provide a better explanation of what happened. Fadi Sodah wrote:
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hi ppl,
When i start my linux-box, i got the following msg: ------------------------------------------- Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the Kernel ide_setup: hdb=cdrom console:16 point font, 400 scans console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f0280 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf0210 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200 Probing PCI hardware. Calibration delay loop...ok -39.94 BogoMIPS Memory: 30688k/32768k available (772k kernel code, 384k reserved, 924k data SwANSEA University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP checking 386/387 coupling ...ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. checking 'hlt' instruction...ok. Linux version 2.0.29 (root@Mandelbrot.suse.de) gcc version 2.7.2.1 ..... serial driver cersion 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq =4) is a 16550A tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq =3) is a 16550A PS/2 auiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date:1994..... tpqic02: DMA buffers:20 blocks, at address 0x1fde00 (0x1fdc50) ftape-2.08 960314 for Linux 1.3.70 Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide: BM-DMA feature is not enabled (BIOS) hda: ST51080A,1033MB w/256kB Cache, LBA,CHS=525/64/63 hdb: ATAPI cdrom ide at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy driver(s): fd0 is 1.44 started kswapd v .4.2.2 FDC 0 is apost-1991 82077 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. INIT: Version 2.65f booting Running /sbin/init.d/boot. Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab.. Adding Swap: 50364k swap-space Running update (bdflush) daemon. checking file systems Parallelizing fsck version 1.06 (7-Oct-96) /dev/hda2 contains a file system errors, check forced. hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError }. LBAsect=385922, sector=18029 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector 180290 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError }. LBAsect=385922, sector=18029 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector 180290 Error reading block 90145 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while doing inode scan.
/dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENC; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) Loading /etc/default.keytab
fsck failed. Please repair maually and report. The root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write do: bash# mount -n -o remount, rw / Attention: Only Control-D will reboot the system in this maintanance mode. shutdown or reboot will not work.
Give root password to login: -------------------------------------------------------------------
What shall i do?
Thx in advance fadi -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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