Filesystem problems - unable to boot

[Barry Tepperman]

Thank you John. NO OTHER ERRORS come up.

Barry

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
>Sent: Aug 7, 2006 10:01 AM
>To: Barry Tepperman <pogofenokee at earthlink.net>, Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: Filesystem problems - unable to boot
>
>On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:51 -0400, Barry Tepperman wrote:
>> I have become completely dependant on Ubuntu for all my personal and most of by 
>> professional computing. Have successfully upgraded(except for PCMCIA wireless cards
>> - another story for another time) from 5.04 - 5.10 - 6.06. After the most recent
>> software update (which included a kernel upgrade to 2.6.15-26-386) now find myself
>> unable to reboot. The error message IMMEDIATELY AFTER attempting to load initrd 
>> in the startup sequence is "Error 16 : Inconsistent filesystem structure; press
>> any key to continue....". The "press any key" gets me into the GRUB
>> menu of current and previous kernels used with and without recovery mode - but none
>> of them get me past the same point. I would - at the very least - like to salvage
>> my data, and preferably get the system restored and running. 
>> 
>> So.... how to do that? I think running fsck would possibly do it, but if I go to
>> comand line at the point of this error fsck is not found. Do I need to boot from
>> a UbuntuLIVE CD as a recovery disk? Do I just write the whole thing off to experience
>> - OBVIOUSLY not the preferred approach?
>> 
>> Grateful for any suggestions. Perhaps once this is resolved I'll ask about the
>> wireless card - but right now that's trivial.
>> 
>> Barry Tepperman
>> 
>Grub Stage 2 errors:
>13 : "Inconsistent filesystem structure"
>
>This error is returned by the filesystem code to denote an internal
>error caused by the sanity checks of the filesystem structure on disk
>not matching what it expects. This is usually caused by a corrupt
>filesystem or bugs in the code handling it in GRUB.
>
>Grub loads in stages... Are there any other errors associated with this? 
>(Like "Hard Disk Error", "Read Error", "Geom Error")
>
>
>
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