From one day to another the system could not boot. Instead gave a lot of error messages and asked for the root
Hello all: I have a serious problem with a system running SUSE 9.2. password finally saying that the root file system was corrupted. Auto fsck failed on the root filesystem. I booted from a SUSE 9.2 rescue/install disk selecting rescue mode and tried to save all the files from the root filesystem to another partition before manually run fsck. It did not work and I got a lot of i/o errors. I took out this HD (let's call HD1) from the computer and connected to another MB in another computer and now I am trying to boot that computer up but is also fails. (That computer has a very same HD, let's call it HD2.) Without connecting HD1 to that computer it boots normally from its own HD2. Both HDs are SATAs and the BIOS sees them as first IDE master and slave. Right now my problem is that if I connect the possibly bad drive HD1 to the other system it also fails to boot correctly. The boot process is very slow and I get the following error messages during boot: Buffer I/O error on device sdb2, logical block xxxxxx ata1: status 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error} scsi 0 : ERROR on channel 0, id1, lun0 current sdb: sense key Medium error Additional sense: Unrecovered read error: auto reallocate failed end request: I/O error, dev sdb sector xxxxxxxx and it goes like this for a really long time with different xxxxxx values. Finally I got error messages that processes could not been started since a read-only filesystem. If I disconnect 'sdb' (HD1) and only sda (HD2) is connected, boot process is OK. Questions: 1. Does these messages mean that the HD1 is dying? 2. How could I disable sdb check to be able to boot normally from sda? 3. Why the connection of sdb2 causes the system not to boot normally from sda? Thanks, IG ps: Sorry for being verbous. ______________________________________________________________________________ Hihetetlen! Sikerkönyvek 1 napos házhozszállítással! 3 könyv rendelése esetén összesen 20% kedvezmény! http://www.bookline.hu/?affiliate=frenapkar982