persistent disk errors during boot

[Harry Kuhman]

Ok, I can confirm that I also get errors on my laptop.

Well, I didn't really expect that, but it does give us a direction to look in. It certainly points to the disc itself, and makes it much less likely that you have CD drive problems.

I just don't get it. I can boot from this livecd use fluxbox
open as many apps as I want and shut the system down.
Reboot with "home=scan"
Bamm... /media/hda_whatever/knoppix.img was not cleanly umounted. check forced.

What? you can boot the CD, as long as you don't do the home=scan thing? And you're only mentioning that now?

Does knoppix.img have to created on a ext2/ext3 partition?
I have tested with NTFS and Fat32 only.

As far as I know it works fine with FAT. I would never let Knoppix write to NTFS, and I would consider any NTFS partition so written to to be corrupt. I don't use a home setting and have never gotten one to work right, so I stay out of such discussions, at least when I know that's what the poster is posting about. The last thought that I have to offer in this matter is that it would make a lot more sense to tell home where to look for the data than to give it the scan command, at least if scan is having problems.

[xears]

Sorry Harry I didn't knew that was important. I could boot from this livecd always.
The only problem I have is knoppix.img getting corrupted or something as I mentioned...
You told me that it could be the cd I believed you. I'm the newbie here man
Sorry if I misleaded you.

Let me try to explain the situation again
I'm using hda5 (Fat32) to host knoppix.img now. Nevermind NTFS. I'm using Fat32
I boot from livecd and enter home=scan to let the livecd find knoppix.img automatically and indeed it's always found.

Then I get those messages
/media/hda5/knoppix.img was not cleanly umounted. check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 18 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
Deleted inode 19 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
(...)
then
>> /home/knoppix mounted OK from /media/hda5/knoppix.img
>> Read-only CD/DVD system successfully merged with read-write /media/hda5/knoppix.img

Fluxbox starts and I run the apps I want.
Fluxbox/Exit and the system shuts down normally.

Next time I boot I get similar errors on knoppix.img
I don't know why...

I'll try the home=/dev/hda5 as you said just to make sure
but as I said knoppix.img gets found with "scan".
I'll check that out tomorrow and let you know. It's 1:33 AM and I'm falling asleep

Thanks again for your time and sorry for the misunderstanding
xears

[xears]

Hi again

If I write home=/dev/hda5/knoppix.img nothing gets found
If I write home=scan or nothing knoppix.img gets found


xears