Thanks for the tips. The box that I've been working on is really being a pain in the *ss. Now its got booting problems and I speculate again that it is a hard drive or mobo problem or both.
I've got the important files on a different drive which I've decided to relocate to a saner box. Anyway, how do you surface scan a hard drive in Linux ala scandisk in MS-DOG? -$tp "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quoting Stephen Paul E Florentino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I've been working on a RH 7.2 box which gives and Input/Output Error >> message everytime I try to access important system files, eg inittab and >> rc files. I'm speculating that the hard drive is dying or that the files >> have been corrupted. > >That seems likely. Or you could be having hardware problems with your >host adapter circuitry. > >> The / partition which contains /etc was formatted as ext3. I was >> planning to fsck the partition but I risk not being able to >> boot properly as inittab and other rc files seem inaccessible. > >If possible, I would attempt to copy as many files as possible >across the LAN (if there's a LAN) to another machine. For safekeeping. >Then, you can relax a bit, and attempt diagnosis. > >Some notes on ways to do that: > >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/kb/20 >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-directory-trees-via-cpio >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-directory-trees-via-tar >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-via-netcat __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
