Hi all, This is really strange. For 1-2 days now, I can't get the machine to boot. It is hung up since day before yesterday and can't get past fsck, saying system was not shutdown correctly, automatic checks in progress.
The only sequence of events I can recall is that I applied the USB patch delay and then I compiled and rebooted into kernel which has the USB delay and it worked fine for an hour or so. While there I fiddled with some command I found which lists the smart status of the hard disks (I don't remember what command it was though). Then I shut down, and next day I did a cvs update. And I immediately did a plain fsck. It got hung up in fsck for half an hour on /home (which is really small of about 20G) and I tried to do a Ctrl+C and I power cycled it down. Since then it hangs up in fsck. I mounted single user, mounted partitions one by one and marked all partitions except /home partition as clean. It hangs up in /home, why I don't know. fsck even marked my RAID 1 softraid as clean. I am perplexed why doesn't it go past the fsck on a normal boot, and I have to power cycle it down. The only thing I did different was that hard disk command, and googling brought me to this http://www.techmetica.com/howto/sata-ahci-mode-bios-setting.-what-does-it-do/ Do I really have to do a upgrade or change anything in BIOS to make it boot? Please advice. Thanks, amit
