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  From: Ian Hogben <ian@safcol.com.au>
  To  : rob <rbarnard@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:24:10 +0930

RE: / file system

Have a look at lilo's configuration and see if anything's amiss there. You
haven't mounted that filesystem as rw, have you? I did that a while ago, and
it needs to be mounted as ro at that stage, with read-write status occurring
later. A similar error message came up for me.




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* -----Original Message-----
* From: rob [mailto:rbarnard@picknowl.com.au]
* Sent: Monday, 3 April 2000 10:21
* To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
* Subject: / file system
*
*
* hello all,
* my problem with linux this time is that  I am unable to get passed this
* message on start up :
*             checking root file system
*             Fsck is a directory while trying to open /   /:
* It then goes on to tell me that the block could be corrupt and suggests
* to run:
*             e2fsck -b 8193(device)
* So then  I took that to mean typing in fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb5(my linux
* partition)
* It then cleared a heap of stuff , but on start up gave the same message.
*
* Linux is mandrake 6.
*
* any ideas
* thanks,
* Rob.
*
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