On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote > Help!! > > I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some > (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for > Apache was OK, se we re-booted. > > At re-boot I now get: > |-------------- > | ... > | .. checking root file system > | fsck.ext2: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read > while trying to open /dev/hda1 > | Could this be a zero length partition? > | > | fsck failed. please repair manually and re-boot. Please note that the > root file system is mounted Read-only, > | .... > |give root password for maintenance. > |--------------- > Ok, I go root, and look around. everything seems OK, all files there. > > fdisk shows partitions OK: > |------------------ > | boot device format size start end > | * /dev/hda1 Extended 1580M 2 785 > | hda2 DOS FAT-16 50M 2 27 > | * hda6 Linux ext2 1250M 28 662 > | hda7 linux swap 250M 663 785 > |------------- > a v option to fdisk (check partition table) says: 8249 unallocated sectors > > running fdisk from a rescue floppy on /dev/hda6 gives (immediately): > e2fsck > /dev/hda6: clean, 29621/641024 files, 542724/3560288 blocks. > > It seems to report this Immediately, no time, no disk work. (???) > > I tried re-writing the boot block to the first partition (the one reported > troublesome), /dev/hda1, seems to work fine. >
Your root filesystem is on /dev/hda6, but rcS said: > | .. checking root file system > | fsck.ext2: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read > while trying to open /dev/hda1 > | Could this be a zero length partition? It's trying to fsck your extneded partition, rather than your true root partition. My guess is that /etc/fstab is wrong, and that it lists /dev/hda1 as root instead of /dev/hda6. The fact that you get to single-user mode means that hte kernel and LILO are configured correctly. HTH, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
