Re: [TCLUG:932] Boot Problems

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Chris Muller (cmuller@avsgroup.com):
> I've just encountered a problem which I've never even heard of before. 
> When booting, the system goes into a forced fsck and then returns this
> error "DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error".  Then it gives me the
> ...run fsck manually...Control-D to boot normally... at which point I
> put in my root password and attempt to run fsck manually.  This then
> produces inode errors which I cannot get past.  I've never had anything
> like this ever before and I'm completely clueless about what to do. 
> Could any of you gurus please help?
> 

Sounds like a bad drive crash. Or a possible bad controllor card. 

What are the inode errors?

Worse comes to worse you can set fsck to use another superblock and
try it from there.

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