On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I tried to boot this morning after a normal shutdown of RH6.2
> the evening before I received the following message:
>
> Activating Swap: /dev/hd8: invalid argument :[failed]
>
> the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct
> ext2 filesystem. Your might try running 2fsck with an alternate
> superblock
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
> Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda2:
> [failed]
>
> hda2 is my root partition.
Were you not the one with that DRQ ide reset problem a while back.?
Is this the same drive i wonder.???
It seems very funny to me that after a "normal" shutdown something like this
happens.
>
> Then it stops saying:
>
> Give root password for maintenance
> or ^C-d for normal start-up.
>
> Not knowing what to do in maintenance I first tried to upgrade
> where it showed that / and /home were corrupted. I then reinstalled
> the RH6.2 distro formatting /, /home and swap, however, not /usr
> and /usr/local and I was back in business booting normally.
>
> Now on the second booting the same problem appears again.
>
> What have I to do to solve the problem.
>
> Thanks
> Peter
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