[ubuntu-us-mi] Problem with 9.04 on Thinkpad T61P

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:24:01PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:38:03PM -0400, Mike Bernson wrote:
> > I had ext3 file system problem after reboots on 3 different tries. Each
> > try was a clean install of 9.04. 1 Time the file system error happened
> > before reboot and it remount the file system read only. The other 2 times
> > the system did not shutdown clean. I tried to shutdown from the GUI and
> > the system did not turn off. After a while I force the system off. When
> > turning the laptop back the fsck failed with a large (200+) files that
> > where not connected into the file system.
> 
> Honestly, this kind of error sounds like a disk problem, or something
> weird like the swap partition overlaps the ext3 filesystem you're
> having a problem with.  I used to see this often in the past but not
> with modern installers.

Another thing I can think of is that I remember some Thinkpads doing
weird things with the emergency restore partition, where linux would
end up using space the BIOS left aside for the emergency restore
section.  I think it was a FAT partition at the end of the disk.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>