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milo

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 5

[solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

Hello, I've updated my system a few days ago and I've the followin grub error on bootup. I have 2 OSes installed on my desktop: Arch Linux and Windows. I've googled a lot in order to solve my problem, but there is no appreciate  suggestions. I've tried to use "savedefault=false" in my menu.lst - didn't help. I fsck'ed my disks - it said there are no problems in my partitions. I use ext4. Here is my menu.lst:

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux test
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
# title  Arch Linux Fallback
# root   (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
# initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
   
# (2) Memory test utility
title  Memtest86+  [/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin]
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin

# (3) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Any suggestions, please?

Last edited by milo (2012-01-04 10:51:51)

milo

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 5

Re: [solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

I've checked /dev/fd0 with fsck (fsck -n /dev/fd0) and it throwed out many of such errors:

[826.502070] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[826.503070] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

and in the end:

fsck.ext2fs: Attemp to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/fd0. Could this be a zero-length partinion?

I've decided to check this dev because grub prints some similar errors while starting. It seems strange for me because /dev/fd0 is floppy drive device, but I haven't this one.

Last edited by milo (2011-12-25 18:47:12)

xangelux

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Registered: 2010-05-29

Posts: 73

Re: [solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

have you changed the menu.lst? since ... (don't remember when) kernel26 has been changed to linux, so your kernel  line should be vmlinuz-linux and initrd should be initramfs-linux.img

b4data

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Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 141

Re: [solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

since ... (don't remember when) kernel26 has been changed to linux

Link for the lazy

milo

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 5

Re: [solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

since ... (don't remember when) kernel26 has been changed to linux

Link for the lazy

it's not a reason. kernel26 and so on is just a symlink, i tried to refer to vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img. i've figured out that day grub was updated from 0.97.20 to 0.97.21, i tried to downgrade it but... with no profit... i created new /boot partinion and installed grub there - didn't work (as suggested here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Creat … terInstall )... so, i don't know what to do.

milo

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Registered: 2011-08-14

Posts: 5

Re: [solved] Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

i've solved this problem. Grub suddenly didn't want to work with my ext4 partition even after recreating it. so... i just make ext3 insteed. thanks for attention.