[Hoary] Can't Read EXT3 Journal

[James Wilkinson]

On 4/24/05, Scott Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
> These drive seek errors and kernel panics are tell tale signs of a drive
> going bad.  That means your data may have already been lost and having
> backups might be good right now.

I *thoroughly* agree. Unless you place no value on the data on that
disk, Don't Use It until you are sure it is good.

David M. Carney wrote:
> Fortunately grub can still read the menu.lst file (or whatever). 

*Un*fortunately, in my humble opinion.

That drive needs to be replaced. If a disk isn't bootable, you won't be
tempted to boot it. If at all possible, you should replace the drive, or
take it to a computer with a good hard drive, install the dying disk
(as well as the good one), and boot from the known good drive. Then you
should recover everything you can. 

Using the disk in the meantime is playing Russian Roulette with your
data.

James.

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