Hello All,

Hardware: HP ML570 2G Ram Dual 2.8G procs Compaq 5300 Smart Array Controller

Software: Centos 4.1

I yum-med a server last week and rebooted it.

When it came up, it stopped. Looking at the console, I got:

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Setting Hostname: OK Checking root filesystem: /dev/cciss/c0d0p10 is mounted, e2fsck cannot continue, aborting failed

*** an error occurred during the file system check *** Dropping you to a shell; The system will reboot *** when you leave the shell Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)

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So I did what any good sysadmin would do- I grabbed the boot disk and rebooted the box in rescue mode and ran e2fsck on the /root partition. No errors came up and rebooting the box resulted in the same error!

So I dug a little, and found that putting some comments in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit would circumvent *the error* and allow the box to boot.

Here are the lines - (around line 375)

if [ "${RHGB_STARTED}" != "0" -a -w /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console ]; then fsck -T -a $rootdev $fsckoptions > /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console else initlog -c "fsck -T -a $rootdev $fsckoptions" fi

Here are the grub.conf boot settings: title CentOS (2.6.9-22.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.ELsmp.img

My question is:

WHAT IS THE ERROR?

TIA, Dave Augustus