On Saturday 02 April 2005 21:26, Patrick Smith wrote: > Mike wrote: > > Partition /dev/hda5 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it > > fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda5 failed (status 0x10) run manualy > > I think reiserfsck simply refuses to run on a partition that is mounted > read-write. You should run it with the partition not mounted at all, if > possible, or mounted read-only otherwise. > > If this is your root partition, you want things to happen in this order: > - mount it read-only > - fsck > - remount it read-write When I ran the reiserfsck from rescue and knoppix it was unmounted > Check your startup script(s) and boot options. boot.device-mapper looks OK /boot/menu.lst wasn't changed the new kernel is linked to vmlinuz