I'm running Karmic on an AMD 64 on Efficient PC (Re-badged Asus Anubis), with Nvidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio card.
In recent days my system has been freezing, although this has generally been solved with a reboot.
Now, however, GRUB is failing to start Karmic, and is dropping me into initramfs.
I have tried a systemrescue cd (see here http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page), which when I switch on slows down at
ATA1 port is slow to respond
forcing hard reset
comreset failed errno=-16
srs failed errno=-19
limiting SATA speed to 1.5gbps
Once I've got the system rescue cd running, I can't mount the either of my partitions /sda1 (ext3) or /sda2 (swap) to run fsck
booting in recovery mode gives me
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
Done
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg
Running dmesg | tail shows
[2.540798] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 384 not in group (block 4023357247)!
[2.540937] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
On the basis of this I think that I either have a corrupted filesystem, or more seriously, I have a hard disk problem.
The first thing I want to do is to try to run fsck on sda1 to try to repair any filesystem damage - how can I do this. I've got both a systemrescue dc and a Knoppix disk.
Suggestions welcome!
In recent days my system has been freezing, although this has generally been solved with a reboot.
Now, however, GRUB is failing to start Karmic, and is dropping me into initramfs.
I have tried a systemrescue cd (see here http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page), which when I switch on slows down at
ATA1 port is slow to respond
forcing hard reset
comreset failed errno=-16
srs failed errno=-19
limiting SATA speed to 1.5gbps
Once I've got the system rescue cd running, I can't mount the either of my partitions /sda1 (ext3) or /sda2 (swap) to run fsck
booting in recovery mode gives me
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
Done
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg
Running dmesg | tail shows
[2.540798] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 384 not in group (block 4023357247)!
[2.540937] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
On the basis of this I think that I either have a corrupted filesystem, or more seriously, I have a hard disk problem.
The first thing I want to do is to try to run fsck on sda1 to try to repair any filesystem damage - how can I do this. I've got both a systemrescue dc and a Knoppix disk.
Suggestions welcome!
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