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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Thu May 10, 2007 7:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | fsck error on startup - Solved |
I was recently given an old dell notebook that I thought would make an excellent FE. I had to do a manual install to HDC as that is what it recognized the hard drive to be. Not sure why but I got everything loaded and working. After a few good restarts I now get an error message everytime I boot that stops the process until I hit cntrl D. The message says Code: Checking file systems . . . fsck 1.40-WIP
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda3 /dev/hda3: The superblock could not be read or does not .... fsck died with exit status 8 I am not sure why it is looking for hda. can anyone suggest a way to fix this? |
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| Author: | mihanson [ Thu May 10, 2007 8:36 pm ] |
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Have you ever cracked open this computer? Is there a physical drive connected to the primary IDE channel? Does the BIOS set up allow you to disable scanning of IDE0? It's usually on the 1st page of the BIOS menu. Probably set to "auto" and you may have to try using "disable" if my theory pans out... 
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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Fri May 11, 2007 6:32 am ] |
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Never opened it. As i mentioned, this is a laptop notebook computer (Dell Inspiron 5150) so I don't think I can just change a jumper like in a desktop model (can I?). Currently HDA is pointed to the CD drive and HDC is pointed to the hard drive. The BIOS setup screen is also rather disappointing as it has little options other then boot order and setting the date/time. All this aside, it seems to operate well from HDC. My only problem is this initial disk scan that is trying to check HDA. Is there a way to turn this off? |
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| Author: | mihanson [ Fri May 11, 2007 11:55 am ] |
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Is there any reference to /dev/hda in your lilo.conf file? You may also want to look at the man pages for tune2fs. |
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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Fri May 11, 2007 12:49 pm ] |
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I am at work right now and will check as soon as I get home but I am almost certain there is as the CD/DVD drive is hda. The problem seems to be that it is trying to do a fsck on the CD/DVD drive. How can I make it stop doing that? |
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| Author: | mihanson [ Fri May 11, 2007 2:33 pm ] |
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Check your lilo.conf when you get home for references to /dev/hda. If it has a reference, such as Code: root=/dev/hda1 Change it to be Code: root=/dev/hdc1 and see if that cures your symptoms.Failing that, you can add Code: hda=cdrom to your append line in lilo.conf
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-7.html You could disable the fs checking, but that's a more drastic fix (See the tune2fs man page). Let's see if we can get the system to recognize hda as a cdrom first. |
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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Sat May 12, 2007 1:39 pm ] |
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In my lilo.conf it already had a Code: root=/dev/hdc1 I added the line that said Code: hda=cdrom but still get the same error.
The error specifically points to hda3. Is this something that is specifically setup by Knoppmyth? Or is this something that is being discovered wrong during boot up? |
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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Sat May 12, 2007 1:47 pm ] |
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Found it. Some how in my /etc/fstab the /dev/hda3 was being setup as /myth. I commented this out and ta-da. I will go back and redirect /myth to /dev/hdc3 as all should be well. mihanson, thanks for staying with me and all the help. Hope to repay you sometime. |
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| Author: | mihanson [ Sat May 12, 2007 5:38 pm ] |
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No problem. As soon as I read hda3 in your last message it clicked with me that it was looking for /myth. Glad you found it. No need to pay me back, just pay it forward! |
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