Re: SOLVED: Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 08:49, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002, 21:21:02, Rob Weir wrote: > > Maybe it's heat problems? I've heard of plenty of machines that get all > > kinds of weird errors when sealed up, all due to things that should be > > hot getting quite hot. If all else fails, mayb

Re: SOLVED: Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-12 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 12 Nov 2002, 21:21:02, Rob Weir wrote: > Maybe it's heat problems? I've heard of plenty of machines that get all > kinds of weird errors when sealed up, all due to things that should be > hot getting quite hot. If all else fails, maybe just let it run open > and aim a desk fan into it? I thou

Re: SOLVED: Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:03:49AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > All I had changed today was I put the cover back on. So I took the cover > off, removed the not-working DAT drive, tidied up some cables, booted back > into the CD, got a shell, ran e2fsck, fixed a few inode errors, and voila Mayb

SOLVED: Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Thank you Nate, Sean, and Jason. I remembered that I could get a shell prompt from the Install script by hitting the old Alt-F2, so I booted from my install CD and poked around, and finally deduced I was having scsi bus errors. All I had changed today was I put the cover back on. So I took th

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:19:23PM -0800, madmac madmac wrote: > I get timeouts from the Adaptec's SCSI adapters BIOS > routine where it polls it's devices. ack... well it could be faulty hardware, in which case i'd see if i could try different disks on the same adaptor, and the same disks

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread nate
madmac madmac said: > > 08:01: rw=0, wnat=2, limit=1 > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > attempt to access beyond end of device > 08:01: rw=0, wnat=2, limit=1 > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 maybe the drive is dieing, I think you need

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread Jason Clarke
> But today the system went Gack(1) - it had a SCSI > error on the console and everything was locked, so I > had to hard-boot, and when it came back up . . . . I've had many a machine go KAZACK! Have you phsyically removed each component of the machine in question and replaced tenderly? > I get