do
e2fsck /dev/hda? (give your hdd device name there)
The message indicates that there's some problem with the hard disk -
possible sector corruption. fsck is a bit like scandisk, to clean the file
system.
If you want to mount the hard disk read-write for some reason (not
suggested while it's giving errors), you can do a
mount /dev/hda? / -oremount,rw
Sreeji
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, charmie wrote:
> After making a RedHat 6.1 installation while it boots, its processes this
> result:
>
> =======
> Welcome to RedHat Linux
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
>
> Mounting proc filesystem OK
> Setting Clock : XX XX XX Time IST 2000 OK
> Loading default keymap OK
> Activating Swap Partitions OK
> Setting hostname apcl
> Checking root filesystem
> /dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> Error in reading block 393290 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read) while doing inode scan.
>
> /dev/hda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> FAILED
>
> *** An error occured during file system check.
> *** Dropping you to shell; the system will reboot
> *** when you leave the shell.
> Give root password for maintainance
> (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
> =========
>
> Now, if I type Control-D it sends the kill signals and reboots and causes
> the same thing again - if I supply the root password, it logs me in as root
> but makes it 'Read-only file system'
>
> [root@apcl /root]# mkdir test
> mkdir: cannot make directory 'test': Read only file system
>
> Tried running fsck:
>
> [root@apcl /root]# fsck
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999)
> [root@apcl /root]#
>
>
> So, any ideas whatta do ? Try installing again ? Or, I could do something
> from here itself ? Any docs around .. ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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