Hi Phil, [or is it Alain?]
Alain wrote:
It looks like the / partition is corrupt.
snip
Now, on bootup, the hdd appears to be read correctly but the messages
come up:
fsck: Bad file descriptor
Unknown error; help!
init: /rescue/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user
mode
It looks like the / partition is corrupt. For some incomprehensible
reason (possibly probably the sata hdd connectors which appear to me
to be very flimsy as I have had this connection problem on several
motherboards) the sata drive gets disconnected or partially so. This
appeared a couple of