Merry Christmas everybody.

I have an old K6 II 400 w/ a 9 GB IBM hdd. I suddenly got a whole lot of dma
interrupt and dma reset messages in /var/log/messages. On reboot, I get the
grub splash screen and then the pc hangs w/ the following message.
-----------------------------
Uncompressing linux

invalid compressed format (err=1)

-- System halted.
----------------------------

I booted from a rip linux rescue cd and tried to run fsck but I am getting
superblock errors which persist even when I try e2fsck -b 8193.

What is to be done now ? I hope I can atleast salvage my data from my /home
on which I *can* run an fsck which shows the partition is clean.

I have loaded rh 8 on this machine just about 3-4 weeks ago and had opted to
check for bad blocks during format. Needless to say, no errors were reported.

Sharukh.
-- 
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
Mumbai, India.


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