On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:10 -0600, Saurabh Barve wrote: > Hi, > > I did not want to put an "URGENT" label in the subject but this is quite > urgent! > > I had one IDE port on my mobo get fried due to a power surge. I am now > using a PCI-IDE card to hook up my two hard drives. The machine had FC2 > running on it - 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp kernel. > You used an ~$40 ide controller card instead of spending ~$100 for a new mobo? And you knew that at least the ide controller on the mobo is fried? That seems a bit like trying to scrape the burn off the outside of the toast and serving it anyway. > The problem I'm having is that the machine will not boot properly. After > grub loads, everything else is skipped, and I get a prompt that says > "(none) login: ". When I try to login at this prompt, I'm not asked for > my password, and the login prompt appears again. > > After a while, I noticed this error: > --- > /bin/login: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot > open object file: input/output error > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes > --- > > I tried to 'upgrade' my installation using the FC2 CD to see if that > fixes the problem, but when the installer searches for the FC2 > installations, it gets killed with the error: "swap not initialized". > > I then booted the FC2 CD in linux rescue mode. I can see that > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is pointing to /lib/ld-2.3.3.so. But /lib/libdl.so.2 > is not being read, in the sense that I can list it with the ls command, > but when I try to do `ls -l` on it, I get an 'input/output error'. I > tried this to forcibly create a link: > > `ln -s /lib/libdl-2.3.3.so /lib/libdl.so.2' > > but I get an error : cannot create link: read only filesystem > > I even tried to `rm -rf /lib/libdl.so.2' and the command returned > without any errors. But I still cannot `ln -s' in the /lib directory. > The controller fried. Maybe the disk is corrupted.
