[Cialug] System boot halts at "Filesystem is NOT clean"

[Chris Hettinger]

 > Was syslog logging locally or to a remote machine?
 > Do you know if there was anything unusual in the logs before you 
rebooted it?

Likely locally, this box hadn't had much done to it other than an 
install a few months ago. It was booted recently to be moved, but not 
given the monitor or anything. It very well may have halted on the first 
boot as far as I know.

 > There appears to be some disk corruption.

That was my fear.

 > Do you have physical access to the box?

Yes I do.

 > You may need to boot off of a CD.

I'll have to go that route.


If any other ideas, do reply.
Thanks,
-ch


Jeff Davis wrote:

> There appears to be some disk corruption.
> 
> I'd start with running fsck.
> (Although I think there is a ReiserFS specific one called: reiserfsck.)
> Do you have physical access to the box?
> You may need to boot off of a CD.
> 
> Was syslog logging locally or to a remote machine?
> Do you know if there was anything unusual in the logs before you rebooted it?
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Hettinger wrote:
> 
>>Booted up a box I haven't touched in a little while, last know boot was
>>fine. The system had to be restarted because it had now
>>monitor/keyboard/mouse attached. On the next boot the system stops
>>shortly following "Checking root filesystems":
>>
>>"Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x348 ...
>>Filesystem is NOT clean."
>>
>>I see this once, it then loads a couple things then I see twice more
>>before start up appears to halt.
>>
>>Not seeing HDD activity ...
>>
>>
>>Can anyone explain a little bit about what I'm seeing? What may be my
>>next step?
>>
>>-ch
>>
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