Filesystem check

[Emeric Maschino]

> >  > Indeed, at startup, once the logical volumes are configured and
> >  > activated, my filesystem is checked but the check fails with the
> >  > following message:
> >  > e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
> >  [snip]
> >  > Yesterday, I had the bad idea to finally enter the root password and
> >  > manually run fsck as requested. Of course, this ended up with a totally
> >  > corrupted filesystem.
> >  [snip]
> >  > Any hint ? This is on an Itanium workstation (ia64) and I don't know if
> >  > this problem also appears on other architectures.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm seeing this too on an x86_64 machine, so I guess it's not
> > architecture specific. I also have LVM, and an earlier kernel package
> > works Just Fine(tm). I think the version is 2.6.16-1.2157_FC6, but ICBW
> > (I'm relying on memory here).
> 
> This appeared a few days back. If you remove the rhgb quiet from the
> boot line, you should find it will boot happily - apparently, it's a
> mkinitrd problem. It's fixed in the current rawhide release though.
> 
> The problem can be seen on any kernel past 2157 upto 2181

OK, I'll try to remove the quiet option tonight and post the result.

Many thanks for your help,

	Émeric