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#1 2011-11-21 01:44:18
- Quicken2k
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My Arch won't boot anymore something about bad blocks
It was working fine. I booted it up this morning said it found some bad blocks on some of my Linux partitions. How do I scan the surface of my drives with Archlinux.?. Is that even possible with Linux?. This is my USB drive that has the bad blocks.
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#2 2011-11-21 09:16:48
- twilight0
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Re: My Arch won't boot anymore something about bad blocks
Boot with ro 1 and then when prompted -> fsck /dev/sdaX
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#3 2011-11-21 22:29:31
- Quicken2k
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Re: My Arch won't boot anymore something about bad blocks
Boot with ro 1?. I'm new to Arch and need a bit more info. Are you telling me to boot up in read only mode?. How?.
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#4 2011-11-21 23:45:22
- roygbiv
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Re: My Arch won't boot anymore something about bad blocks
Boot with ro 1?. I'm new to Arch and need a bit more info. Are you telling me to boot up in read only mode?. How?.
No worries! Simply, boot your computer and when you get to GRUB, select your Arch install and hit 'e'. Now you can edit the 'kernel' line. Append 1 (one) to the end of the line. Hit enter again, and hit 'b' to boot into single user mode. Now you can login as root, and perform whatever fsck's and debugging. Be sure to report back.
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#5 2011-11-23 00:02:52
- Quicken2k
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Re: My Arch won't boot anymore something about bad blocks
That didn't help I did what you asked it simply said entering maintenance mode. When a ran fsck /dev/sdb7 it said recovering journal but it didn't scan the surface of the drive for defects like a wanted it to.
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