[svlug] fsck on HD booted from CD???

[Nick Austin]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:31:27PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> I have no executable badblocks on Freesbie.

You might want to try SuperRescue:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2/

If you want to do something less drastic then that, you could try
running something like:

This is also destructive.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive to test>, and see if it fails.

> Also, I think that because the live CD was booted, 
> it doesn't seem to know anything about the 
> installed HD. I get "Could not determine file 
> system type" no matter what I with fsck.

I'll bet it is due to the drive failing. 

I would try and run dmesg, and look for drive error messages.
It sounds like you might have to replace the drive.

Thanks!
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