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