Hi Everyone,

My Mythbox had a stick of ram go bad and would continually reboot shortly after the POST check, but not far into the Linux load. After replacing the ram, Myth came up and worked for a little while and then froze.

Upon rebooting it automatically booted to the maintenance console saying I needed to fsck due to unrecoverable hard drive errors then press control-D to escape the console. I fsck'ed and hit enter a million times to accept all the changes it proposed. The next boot it failed on Mysql load and froze. Every boot after that it boots to the MX console saying hard drive errors; fsck'ing doesn't seem to fix anything.

Does anyone know of documentation for how I might be able to recover from this? Perhaps there are some fsck command line switches I should be doing for a more full recovery? Are there any other utilities or resources I could use? Or am I screwed and just lost all the shows on my Myth?

Thanks for any direction anyone might be able to provide.

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Trying to install KnoppMyth R5F27, ECS 671T-M, Celeron 430, 1gig RAM, 320gig SATA Seagate, Samsung SATA SH-S203N DVD drive, Onboard video and audio, DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite, Seasonic S12II-330watt PS

I have seen similar errors were the drive was fine, but the motherboard had gone bad, specifically the capacitors on the board were cheep and began to corrode which causes various errors depending on were on the board they are connected.
The tops of the capacitors should be flat, if they are bulging then they are about to start leaking. If you see rust-like material coming from it, then it is already leaking. Either way you need to replace the board.

If they are fine, then boot into single user mode and try running fsck again.

Hi,

I would try booting the KM cd and then run memtest for a day or so just to"exercise" things a little. If that holds up, boot a live Ubuntu or dsl cd and run a screen saver for a few hours again to "exercise" If those hold up, you may have a simple bad install... it happens.

If you have failures, then pop the hood and look at caps as suggested, fans running, dust bunnies over reproduced and blocking air flow, etc.

Mike