From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbTIYXkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:40:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262076AbTIYXkk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:40:40 -0400 Received: from mta07bw.bigpond.com ([144.135.24.134]:26067 "EHLO mta07bw.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262062AbTIYXkj (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:40:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:41:58 +1000 From: gb Subject: 2.4.20-20.9 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <1064533319.1361.119.camel@rh-possum> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-11) Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, not sure if this is the right list to try, but I have tried a few now and not found an answer to my problem so I thought I would just give this a shot. I have just installed 2.4.20-20.9 kernel on my RH9 machine. At boot up, it gets as far through rc.sysinit to try to e2fsck / and then halts with the error: Checking root filesystem /dev/hda3 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannont continue, aborting. The command just before this error is : initlog -c 'fsck -T -a -C /' it exits with a return code of 8 (operational error) boot loader is grub, and the stanza's look identical. I used the rpm version of the kernel so it was all pretty much done for me. I haven't yet tried compiling my own kernel because I wanted to sort out this problem first. I also have the old kernel still available and it boots without error. Could you please tell me where I can read about fixing this problem, or maybe some things I can try? Thanks, gillian