OK. Without going into all the details of your problem, it clearly does come
from filesystem corruption. When you drop into maintenence mode, run e2fsck
and let it fix things as it will (that is, say "yes" to everything it asks).
See if that helps.
If not ... well, I saw Lawson posting a response talking about problems with
some IDE controllers. I've had IDE problems too -- but they were simply a
bad board (a like-for-like swapout fixed the problem).
As to respawning ... init respawns whater you tell it to in inittab.
Typically, what respawns are processes that provide login opportunities --
not just getty on the console, but lines that handle serial port & modem
logins. inittab often includes examples of these processes, in the form of
commented-out lines.
In this instance, I'd guess that init is failing to run the mingetty
processes dur to the filesystem corruption.
At 12:47 PM 2/2/00 -0700, John Starkey wrote [in part]:
>> "fdisk"? might it be "fsck"? This (maintenance mode) means the system finds
>> some problem with your filesystem during the boot/init process. Without
>> seeing the "something" it says, I can't be more specific. But init may be
>> failing to find mingetty due to filesystem corruption. Try running "e2fsck
>> /dev/hda1" (replace hda1 with the right designator for your root filesystem)
>> and see if that helps. Or port again reporting the details of what happens
>> during these unsuccessful boots.
>
>Yer right again. I even did an fdisk at this prompt. Maybe I need to try
"hookt on
>fonix".
>
>K..... it says:
>
>/dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
>Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
>Inode 64419 has illegal block(s). Clear<y>?
>
>An Inode is a 1k block of info on the drive right? How do I know whether I
want to
>clear it or not?? Or don't I have a choice.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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