[plug] problem booting

[David & Lisa Buddrige]

hi all,

does badblocks give any sign of its progress while it is executing?  when
executed it says:

checking for bad blocks in read-only mode
checking from block 0 to [a really big number]


cheers

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 29 January 2004 9:55
Subject: Re: [plug] problem booting


>David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:
>
>| ok /proc is mounted... do you know where to look to diagnose what might
be
>| the problem?
>
>I'd run fsck and badblocks.  It doesn't need /proc to be mounted, but
>you do want to make sure that your root fs isn't mounted read-write.
>(It will be read-only right after booting up with init=/bin/sh; but if
>you remounted it, you'll want to remount it again as read-only.)
>
>So yes, running something like "badblocks -v /dev/discs/disc0/disc" is
>probably a good start, as is "e2fsck -f -v /dev/FOO" (where FOO is the
>appropriate partition - cat /proc/mounts if you aren't sure; if you
>aren't using ext2/ext3 you'll need a different fsck command).
>
>Cameron.
>
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