I had this very same problem with a RedHat 7.3 installation. As I recall, I was taking a box that used to be Windows and replacing it with RedHat 7.3. I created three partitions, /, /boot, and a swap partition. I think the swap partition ended up being /dev/hda2, but I can't remember for sure. Every time after install, when the machine would boot, it would fail on the fsck of the swap partition, and then complain about fsck'ing a mounted partition (the swap partition). Nothing I did solved the problem, so I ended up just re-installing. Before I did, however, I booted into Linux rescue, fdisk()'ed away all the partitions, wrote to disk, quit, then fsck()'ed in a new, whole-disk, Linux partition, used mkfs.ext3 to format the partition, reboot, and then re-installed. The problem went away. I never really took the time to figure out why, since the only time lost was a re-install (which wasn't too bad considering the server had never even boot one time).
ahp > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Dale Satterfield > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 01:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: File System Errors > > I have a box with RH 8.0 installed, and upgraded to kernel > 2.4.18-18.8.0smp. I now am getting an error message that an error was > found during the initial fsck, and it drops me into a shell. I tried > fsck ( complains about running e2fsck on a mounted system), and > fsck.ext3 ( with same complaint). The file system is ext3. I tried > linux rescue but that didn't work either. How do I get around this ? If > I just control-D to reboot, it hangs at the same place. > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
