and : /sbin/fsck /dev/sda1 fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) /boot1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 526 /boot1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading journal superblock fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /boot1 <div>2007/5/24, antonio montagnani <<a href="mailto:antonio.montagnani@gmail.com"> antonio.montagnani@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I start FC6 from an external USB disk. This morning I got an error on mounting /boot1 so th machine cannot start. I connected the external disk to another FC6 computer (booting from his disk): how do I recover the situation?? When I connect the external disk I get: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error Additional sense: Unrecovered read error end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1115 JBD: IO error reading journal superblock EXT3-fs: error loading journal. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Any help?? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag </blockquote></div> -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag