On 11/22/05, Istvan Gabor
Hello all:
I have a serious problem with a system running SUSE 9.2. From one day to another the system could not boot. Instead gave a lot of error messages and asked for the root password finally saying that the root file system was corrupted. Auto fsck failed on the root filesystem.
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Questions:
1. Does these messages mean that the HD1 is dying?
Yep! I'd say so.
2. How could I disable sdb check to be able to boot normally from sda?
I suppose you'd have to set the last field in /etc/fstab to 0 (zero) turning of fsck at boot time.
3. Why the connection of sdb2 causes the system not to boot normally from sda?
By mounting the filesystem at startup the driver probes the drive
regularly and performs some autonomous tasks that lead to errors with
damaged disks. The same errors will occur when mounting the
particular filesystem manually.
To put it straight: an "auto reallocate" error is a serious physical
error; the disk has lost the data on some of the blocks. Get a new
drive.
\Steve
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Steve Graegert