On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:20:08PM -0600, swede wrote: > I Cannot boot my Fedora 8 computer, the entire drive is in read-only mode and Is boot up detecting drive errors? Does it get to a point where its asking for the root user to log in and run fsck? If so, it does mount root as read only. > trying the rescue disk gets an error and only mounts a couple directories. Sounds like harddrive errors. I hear Spinrite does wonders, though its not free. (http://grc.com) > > I'm pretty sure it's because I changed my smartd.conf but I can't get to it to > change it back now. Don't know why that would have anything to do with it. A rescue disk would not be reading any smartd config info. Or do you mean you messed with hdparm settings? I suppose that might potentially muck up a drive. ~jh > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list