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
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