From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OdC9C-0005HT-5q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:06:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE1F0E08CA; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0E4E08CA for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:05:17 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsHAJN8TEx8qXWo/2dsb2JhbACDFJAFjEdxrzGQJ4Emgx1zBIQGhyo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,259,1278259200"; d="scan'208";a="173016069" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.117.168]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2010 09:05:15 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB941CA48F5 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:05:15 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ka1lH+i9SX6U for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:05:12 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.48.1] (troll [192.168.48.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589F61C66F9C for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:05:12 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck From: Bill Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201007252208.20365.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <201007250949.17739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4C4BF359.4020404@gmail.com> <201007252208.20365.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:05:10 +0800 Message-ID: <1280106310.13934.7.camel@troll> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 52f2312a-91b1-41a8-b480-7451daef5b44 X-Archives-Hash: bfd6454cc59b43e769dde8e870564cc1 On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [snip] > > > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. > > > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. > > ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. > > Here in Africa we use pythons for that. > > Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. > > Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees > it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. > > :-) > I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( Another job for tonight when I get home. BillK