From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2013-04-16, Daniel47@teranews.com  wrote:   
   > On this HP 6730b Laptop, I multi-boot Win7/MD2009.1/MD2010.1/MD2012/MG2   
   > and have my Home in a separate mount (SD8) so that all the linux's can   
   > use it!   
   >   
   > By default it boots into MD2009.1 but a couple of days ago, MD2009.1   
   > died (which is why I'm posting this using Win7). Today I finally have   
   > time to check things out. Sure enough, MD2009.1 wouldn't boot, so I   
   > re-installed it, but it still would not boot, nor any of the Linux's.   
   >   
   > This time, though, I actually looked at what the system was telling me!!   
   > Lots of lines of no real interest, I hope, then.....   
   >   
   > (from the screen)   
   > Checking filesystem   
   > /dev/sd8 contains a file system with errors check forced   
   > (gets to approx 32%)   
   > Inode that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.   
   > /dev/sd8: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES; RUN fsck MANUALLY   
   > (i.e. without -a and -p options)   
   >   
   > I've tried booting to the MD2009.1 DVD, but I cannot see anything there   
   > that will fix my Home mount. I've tried to run "fsck" but I expect I'm   
   > not getting the correct syntact.   
      
   How do we know if you have the right syntax since you did not tell us   
   what you did or what happened.   
      
   >   
   > Can anyone give me a workable plan to help me re-claim my Home mount??   
   > (Treat me gentle!!)   
      
   No idea if it is workable, or what the problem is, but   
   Get a Mageia One disk and boot into it from the dvd.Then run   
   fsck /dev/sda8   
      
   2) Use the One disk to edit the /etc/fstab file on any of your   
   Mandriva/Mageia systems, and remove the mounting of /dev/sda8. Also edit   
   /etc/inittab and change the default boot level from 5 to 3.  Now boot   
   into the that OS. Your home directory will not be mounted. Run fsck from   
   there.   
   It sounds to me like your disk could be dying. You did make a backup   
   didn't you in case that whole /etc/sda8 is gone ( and soon everything   
   will be gone). There is nothing that anyone can do to fix little pieces   
   of the disk surface flaking off and scratching the rest of the disk.   
      
      
      
   >   
   > TIA   
   >   
   > Daniel   
      
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