On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Derek Loree <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Jul 4, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > As I said, "I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends > > zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.” > > Check your partition table with fdisk, cfdisk, or parted. It is possible > the partition table is corrupted as well. > > fdisk -l reported no errors > > > > Are there some options I should use when running fsck? I know when > Ubuntu > > runs automatically every so often on boot that it takes a few minutes to > > complete. Yet when I run fsck from the live CD it completes immediately, > > with no errors. > > This is looking like a hardware problem, the drive should be checked in a > different machine. It is possible that the motherboard has caused the > problems on the drive, and it may need to be zeroed out, repartitioned and > formatted. It is also possible that the drive itself has gone bad, this > will show up in the zeroing process. I do not have another machine. I am not ready to zero the drive. If I need to do that I will get a new machine first. > > To zero the drive if it is sda, run the command: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda > > This will destroy all data on the drive! The command will run until it > runs out of space, make sure the size of the command is the same as the > size of the drive. > > Good luck, > I certainly need all the luck I can find! > > Derek > > > > > -Denis > > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Ken Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Denis Heidtmann wrote: > >>> Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as: > >>> Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79..... > >>> Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure > >>> press any key to continue... > >>> > >>> key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got > >> just > >>> a flashing cursor. > >>> > >>> Power off and restart produced: > >>> Busybox v 1.18.5 (ubuntu1: 1.1.18.5-1ubuntu4.1 built-in shell (ash) > >>> (initramfs) [this is the prompt] > >>> (initramfs) exit > >>> about 10 lines of stuff, including kernel panic. > >>> > >>> Later boot went to what looked like normal completion, but could not > shut > >>> down in the usual way (gui). ^alt bksp caused: > >>> > >>> (numbers...) ext3-fs error (da1): > >>> ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read node block -inaode = (numbers...) > >>> > >>> I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends zero time > >> to > >>> respond that /dev/sda1 is clean. > >>> > >>> Suggestions? > >>> > >>> Thanks.\, > >>> -Denis > >>> > >> Denis, > >> > >> Investigate the fsk command. Your file system is corrupted and needs > >> correcting. The file system check command should fix it. You may need > >> to boot up on a live CD, which should mount your system disk da1 if you > >> ask it. But don't ask it. The fschk command need the file system to be > >> unmounted. > >> > >> Ken > >> CAD 2 CAM > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
