Re: [TCLUG:932] Boot Problems

[Ben Kochie <ben@intexp.com>]

well, your problem could be the bigfoot, they tend to fail quite
regularly, quantum made a big mistake in making the bigfoot line

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Chris Muller wrote:

> Bob Tanner wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting Chris Muller (cmuller@avsgroup.com):
> > > I've just encountered a problem which I've never even heard of before.
> > > When booting, the system goes into a forced fsck and then returns this
> > > error "DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error".  Then it gives me the
> > > ...run fsck manually...Control-D to boot normally... at which point I
> > > put in my root password and attempt to run fsck manually.  This then
> > > produces inode errors which I cannot get past.  I've never had anything
> > > like this ever before and I'm completely clueless about what to do.
> > > Could any of you gurus please help?
> > >
> > 
> > Sounds like a bad drive crash. Or a possible bad controllor card.
> > 
> > What are the inode errors?
> > 
> > Worse comes to worse you can set fsck to use another superblock and
> > try it from there.
> 
> Well, now it doesn't even get to the fsck problem.  Now it starts with
> the LILO and hangs there.  This is starting to feel more and more like a
> hardware problem.  Has anyone heard of RH 5.0 having problems on a
> Compaq Deskpro 2000?  It's got a Quantum Bigfoot 2550A hard drive.
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Chris Muller
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