Lesson learned: unmount all CD's before re-booting.

I've had the drop to: Can not boot, please enter root password for maintenance before: Error checking Hmmm: was it blocks?

I'm sorry I didn't record the actual messages,
But the error was after boot system order has changed message.

I had a "Motherboard Support CD" sitting in my drive for about three weeks.
I'm multi boot, and I originally popped in the CD to install sound on W2K.
Yes, maybe I have re-booted since then.
Tonight I had the thought to play a music CD. So I pop her in.
Nope. Doesn't work.
Tending to my lazy 'quick fix'; ok if mplayer isn't working now: it shall if I reboot.
Let me tell you.
I had the corrupt drive messages. Please drop to root to fix:
Oh no, not again... I sighed.

But, this time. I re-booted once, twice. Talked on the phone. Re-booted again.
Then thought about it.

The computer didn't want to boot with my music CD in the drive.
It didn't want to boot without it.
What was different?

I'd removed the blasted "Motherboard" Support CD, windows thingy.
Put her back in and...
And... Now I'm thinking... Why did that make a difference?

Don't give up on your hard-drive corrupt blah blah messages so soon.
Checking volume <insert volume here>

Exactly what is your system expecting.
Luckily I had faith in my hard-drive.

When I put the silly Windows CD back in: she worked!

Don't know what else to say. But having had this happen on FC4 many months back, and mebbe RH9 as well even before that: this is a recognizable problem to me...

Still haven't figured why, and I'm not in the mood to test it for reproduction. Really wish I had captured those key error messages....

Lesson learned: unmount all CD's before re-booting.

BTW: Don't usually play CD's on my computer, but yes "The Killer's, by Sam's Town" is playing just fine right now. Sure beats rebuilding a system ;-)

HTH somebody

I'm not sure if I'm reading your post correctly,

But it appears your mobo CD is bootable for setting up the mobo before an operating system can be loaded when the computer was first put together (new). Because the mobo CD is used for setting up "mobo, bios-settings", it is possible it changed something in the bios somewhere down the line or you set something off while booting with it in the drive, maybe go through the bios settings to see if there is anything out of the ordinary. One would think that because it is bootable you would get the mobo setup screen instead of the error messages, but it is also possible that it won't go through those steps again as the mobo is already setup or the bios has been updated since rendering the mobo CD sort of useless because of the bios "flash" upgrade.

Thanks, I will double check the BIOS settings. It wasn't a bootable CD though... at least I didn't/don't think so. (I use grub. Would that be the cause?) I really don't want to re-boot to find out :z
But that CD was out.

I tend to ignore the boot-order has changed message, because I usually see it when I unplug my USB and I figured yah, so it's changed... I unmounted first... what's the problem?

I guess the ongoing question is still my sound issues.
Why do I lose mplayer functionality after I've played radio-streaming in Firefox? (My work-around has been jump to 'seamonkey' if I want sound other than radio-streaming).
This time I wanted to play a CD and rather than muck about I rebooted. I'll slap my own wrist for that ;-)

At least twice before: I thought I had a corrupt hard-drive. Same message I got yesterday. I wonder how many other peeps have had this same misfortune...

I have notes from a couple of summers ago where I did run the fix bad blocks... Ultimately did fix the hard-drive... (Can't find that note-book right now though... it's around here somewhere...)
But I had to run linux rescue. I blocked off sectors. I manually re-partitioned. It was a pain in the butt ;-)

Last fall it happened again. This time I bought a new hard-drive. Rebuilt the system and then from there mounted the old-drive and grabbed what was really necessary.

Hope this message can save other people a load of grief. Mebbe hard-drives are getting an unnecessary bad rap!?

And I shall continue to ponder the sound issues.

Now that installing sound is so painless (auto-magic), I don't really know how it is set up. Am I using ALSA? I really don't know...