Chris Arnold wrote:
So if you ran fsck and reported no errors,
I did not run fsck, the system runs it everytime the system does not shut down
correctly. The subject line says does not boot, what would make you think there
are no errors?
at this point just exit or
ctrl d and that should reboot your server again, and it should come
back,
Umm, done that and the system still does not boot.
what is the message you got just above the "please provide root
password " message?
The message above password is only control-d reboots the system. Messages above
that are too many, that's why i was asking where to view previous boot
messages. Here are some of the messages (i hope i choose the right ones):
buffer i/o error on device sda3, logical block 29360568
Gett 11 of those with different block numbers
ata1: EH complete
Error reading block 3670071 (attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read) while getting next inode from scan
fsck failed on at least 1 filesystem
Among many other which are too many to read and type here, which is why i
wanted to know where to view these error messages so i could copy and paste.
I am often in this situation where an error on just one disk
out of the many i use prevents Linux from booting.
Is there a LiveCD that would make it easy for a simple user to
- repair file system damage
- out-comment trouble making entries in /etc/fstab
(removing troubled or missing disks from boot mounting instructions)
Kind regards Philippe
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