Subject: Re: Weird booting error
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
From: Vit Herman <dragon@penguin.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/06/2003 18:43:07
On Tue, 6 May 2003, Yasir Malik wrote:

>
> However, I get the following errors when I am booting up:
> bakup doesn't compare to primary bootblock
> /dev/rwd0f: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsk_msdos MANUALLY
> /dev/rwdg: 10557 files, 3298400 free (824600 clusters)
> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
> 	msdos: /dev/rwd0f (/c)
> Automatic file system check failed; help!
> May 7 00:09:07 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to
> single user mode
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
>
> I press enter and the # prompt comes up.  I then typed exit and pressed
> enter and then I get some errors that go off the screen too fast for me to
> tell everyone (I
> type slow) and the login prompt comes up.  I them am able to login to my
> root account or the account that I have created.  Everything seems to
> work fine afterwards.  I am still able to access the Windows
> partitions.  How can I fix the problem?

I'm not sure but I would start with running scandisk or something like
that. Make sure the fs is ok using dos/windoze tools, scandisk or ndd
will do.

Vit Herman