On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:19:16 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >> Feb 24 18:40:43 mbrc20 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device >> Feb 24 18:40:43 mbrc20 kernel: sda: rw=0, want=40017743, limit=39062500 > > Disk corruption of some sort, or possibly bad ram (a common trigger for > that). > > Boot single user, force an fsck of each file system. Maybe also run a > memtest86 check I booted to single user and ran fsck. I got: WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted file system may cause SEVERE damage. So I aborted. Should I run it anyway? Mike.