Baslinux mailing list

[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I read about fsck and followed the instructions to run e2fsck on an 
unmounted file system (using BL3 to check the BL2 partition), both with 
and without -a (automatically fix?) option.  BL2 ramdisk did not have 
fsck/e2fsck so I could not use that.  The warning message when I tried to 
boot BL2 hard drive said to run e2fsck without the -a option.  It also 
said to reboot immediately, which implies that I am not supposed to use 
BL2 to check itself.

Both times it checked if /dev/hdb3 was mounted (it was not) and then told 
me 'clean, 11/226440 files, 29096/905184 blocks'.
I thought this meant it had fixed the inode problem but it had not.
BL3 does not have a lot of help on e2fsck (part of busybox?).
Switch: -l bad_blocks-file - would this help?
The problem is 'wrong free inode count' and something about illegal 
blocks.

This computer, again, won't boot linux when I first boot into DR-DOS so I 
boot DOS from a Win98 boot disk.  (The other computer at this location 
won't run Xvesa if I boot from Win98 unless I hit F5 to bypass system 
files, and booting from DR-DOS did not help.)  Probably irrelevant to the 
inode problem.  I have three computers of the same model with the same 
problem in linux.



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> While trying to get the linux source code for 2.2.16 into /usr/src/
> on my second computer (the first would not recognize the CD-ROM drive), 
> after installing bzip2 and bunzip2-ing the file from the source CD 
> (linux-2.2.16-tar.bz2 copied to the hard drive first), I did tar
> on the resulting 75MB file (up from 13M) and was getting an occasional 
> error (reset?  two lines of error, it resumed).  Then I went away and came 
> back to find a screen full of error messages about reset and status and 
> command and I could not do Ctrl-C.  Something wrong with hdb so I powered 
> off and tried to go back into linux.
> 
> Linuxz contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> 
> It got slightly into the check and gave up and told me to run fsck 
> manually.  When I typed root to login there were a lot of error messages 
> about EXT2 error  Wrong free inode count (followed by various numbers).
> 
> Before logging in (I think) there was some complaint about 
> Inode 41067 has illegal blocks.
> 
> I dutifully typed fsck without any switches but that did not help.  I have 
> no idea what fsck is supposed to do or how to use it.
> 
> This now happens every time I try to run linux.
> 
> What got messed up?  Is it a bad hard drive?  Just a software problem?  
> Can I fix this?  Only half the source files got installed, even though I 
> saw the others go by on the list.  the /net directory is 0, as is README.
> Would it help to reformat and reinstall Linux on there again.  Change hard 
> drives?  Change computers?
> 
> THis computer is the one that used to not boot linux half the time (unless 
> I booted from Win98 DOS or MS-DOS 6) but it now boots linux without any 
> complaints until the fsck/inodes thing.  I tried to use the problem-free 
> one but it could not find the CD-ROM drive.   (And now my keyboard drawer 
> just fell off again....)
> 
> I was trying to compile the kernel module for a replacement ethernet card
> but I can put back the original card to reinstall linux with as it uses a
> more standard ethernet module.  One problem leads to too many others.
> 
> Any ideas welcome.
> Sindi
> 
> _______________________________________________
> BasLinux mailing list
> BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux
>