[beagleboard] Re: fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-07 Thread Dave Barndt
Hi Gautam, The filesystem is ext4; the O/S is debian 8/jessie, the image is the "officially released" BBB image from last spring (bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz). To date we have not modified any of the kernel startup scripts, save for setting a serial port baud rate in /etc/r

[beagleboard] Re: fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Barndt
ignal to the processor to initiate a shutdown. There is also some sort of backup battery now planned to provide power during the shutdown. Dave On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 12:59:08 PM UTC-5, minde...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 12:44:27 AM

[beagleboard] Re: fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Barndt
u? Dave On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 9:33:09 AM UTC-5, ta...@thinnect.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 11:30:32 PM UTC+2, Dave Barndt wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm hoping that someone has come across this problem before and can point

[beagleboard] Re: fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-05 Thread Dave Barndt
Hi Gautam, Thanks for the reply! I actually had the same idea last night, and did manage to boot the board using an image on an SD card, and was able to run the fsck from there against the bad partition on the eMMC, and saw the details of the corruption. I was able to repair the partition and

[beagleboard] Re: fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-04 Thread Dave Barndt
I apologize - I had tried to post this question an hour earlier but it didn't seem to show up, but now it seems to have. So moderators, please feel free to discard this question or the other one if no one's replied yet. Sorry again, Dave On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 4:30:32 PM U

[beagleboard] fsck fails to start on writable partition at boot/startup

2017-12-04 Thread Dave Barndt
Hi, I'm hoping that someone has come across this problem before and can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to troubleshoot a BeagleBone Black with Debian 8 that appears to have a filesystem corruption. The system has two partitions, a read-only rootfs partition and a writable partitio

[beagleboard] File system corruption causes file system check to not run at all on writable partition

2017-12-04 Thread dave . barndt
Hi, I'm hoping someone has encountered this before and can provide some guidance. I'm troubleshooting a BeagleBone Black system that has two partitions, a read-only rootfs partition and a writable partition for everything else. When it boots, U-Boot completes and hands control to the kernel, w