Refusing to boot: "Inconsistent filesystem structure ..

[mtodorov_69]

I have Knoppix 5.0.1 EN installation on hard disk (Kanotix).

After grub loader it starts to load initrd and then ends up with
following message:

"Inconsistent filesystem structure ..."

When system is then booted from DVD media, ``reiserfsck'' is run and
it reports no errors, but after the run system reboots.

Running ``badblocks'' nondestructive read-write test produced 0 bad
blocks result.

I don't have an idea what it could be. The internet articles about RedHat say this could be a bug in grub, but I have nothing substantial.

Exact log of boot session:

Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17 Default'

root (hd0,5)
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us
apm=power-off nomce vga=791
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x4cfb81]
initrd /boot/initrd.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0xfb10000, 0x4cfb81 bytes]
savedefault
Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

Thanks,
Marvin

[pbily]

The same problem, and no help (here, at least). I've solved it this way:

- boot from cd
- start the conslole and type :

su
reiserfsck --check /mnt/sda1

(as you can see my filesystem is reiser located on the sda1 partition, if yours are diffrent you have to modify this slightly)
After a while the checkout has been ended, no errors were reported... then

shutdown -h now

Remove the CD and reboot the computer from HDD - this time all works fine...

[rldleblanc]

When you get to the GRUB menu, edit the setting and remove "savedefault". Worked for me.

Robert