[CoLoCo] help!! fsck problem

[Paul Hummer]

Sounds like it's about time to replace the drive.  If it continues to 
have fsck errors, ain't nothing software is going to do to bring it back...

Another option is to dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda and then repartition 
and reinstall.  I DOUBT that will make anything better.  Make sure you 
got everything backed up, and buy a new hard drive.  Sorry, but that's 
the hard truth.

Paul

Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> My kids computer started to fail on boot giving an fsck error and 
> saying to run fsck manually. However, I could never get a command 
> prompt so I decided to just reinstall and put hardy on as I was 
> anxious to use it anyway. It was working fine but now it's giving the 
> fsck error again. It said it was going to open a maintenance shell but 
> didn't. Ctrl-d exited and it finished booting but nothing worked. I 
> had a desktop but apps would open and be blank. Nothing worked so I 
> rebooted to try again and now it starts to run fsck, stops and reboots 
> - repeatedly.
>
> I'm guessing I need to boot a live cd to fix it. What I don't know is 
> what I need to do. Do is just run something like
>
> sudo fsck /dev/sda1
>
> Or do I need to use options? The error message did say to run without 
> with -a or -e or something like that.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,
> -jim
>
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