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Linux boot failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Jul 31 12:40:05 2002
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
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I apologize in advance for the delay, as you'll see when you read this.
The linux Athena machine in my office, Rhadamanthus, a Dell whose specs I
can't remember (but which was only purchased recently so is presumably our
current typical system), is showing a boot failure. I didn't reboot it by
hand so it's either from the Athena release or a power failure.
I keep the monitors turned off when not in use, for office temperature and
energy reasons, and I haven't needed to use that machine since Thursday or
Friday of last week, so it could have happened anytime since.
fsck.ext2/dev/hda6:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is
corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda6 [FAILED]
At this point I'm not sure whether to follow its advice; this system is
new enough that I don't know its partitions well, but I know it only had
one physical disk, so this has gotta be some spurious report from an
external filesystem.
Information please?
