I'd say you have bad sectors on your harddisk, and it just so happens that
one of those badsectors has wiped out something important. This happened to
me recently. The disk had a three year waranty (seagate) so I returned it
and got a new drive.
It seemed to me that IDE drives are able to recognise their bad sectors and
then avoid writing to them. You can read the man pages for fsck, there is a
process for identifying bad sectors, writing them to a file, and then
feeding the file into mkfs as blocks to avoid. As I said, this didn't seem
necessary with an ide drive. I suppose the really bad thing would be if this
happens to your swap partion.
Solutions? We check your waranty. I have a machine that is running on a disk
with bad sectors. I guess I just know that oneday I may be reinstalling it
at a time not of my choosing.. oh and of course I don't put important data
on it. So if you do keep your drive you may have to repartion and format it,
and start from scratch. Maybe someone else will give you a better solution.
david..
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, help me with clarifying a boot problem.
I have upgraded from Debian 1.2.17 to Debian 1.3.1, and the machine
will not boot. I have recompiled the kernel 2.0.30 and rebooted the machine
again. Now it hangs, but then finally boots.
This is dmesg with a troubled hda disk access:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fb660
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfbb40
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbb70
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14908k/16384k available (600k kernel code, 384k reserved, 492k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.30 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Fri Sep 12
11:19:28 MDT 1997
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
hda: Maxtor 71626 AP, 1554MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=789/64/63
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI CDROM driveide0 at
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
P.S. I tried to boot an old kernel 2.0.27 it was giving me error
messages during a boot : Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address c181e595..
What is wrong?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
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Eastern Washington University
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