Message during boot: Not Automatically Fixing This

joschi1 · 07-25-2006, 10:28 AM

I'm running Debian 2.6.8-2-386 on a Dell Inspiron laptop. One message that flies by during boot up is a page full of numbers in this format: 418:00/20 followed by the message: Not Automatically Fixing This.

I looked in dmesg to try to read more about this error but it is not reported there. Where can I read a log of the boot up info? Any ideas what this is responding to?

Thanks,

Joschi

druuna · 07-25-2006, 10:42 AM

Hi,

A little search came up with this (message should be in one of the log files, be it dmesg or /var/log/messages):

Quote:

Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: Differences: (offset: original/backup)
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: 90:33/fa, 91:c9/33, 92:8e/c9, 93:d1/8e, 94:bc/d1, 95:f4/bc, 96:7b/f8
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: , 97:8e/7b, 98:c1/8e, 99:8e/c1, 100:d9/bd, 101:bd/78, 103:7c/c5, 104:88/76
.
.
.
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: , 499:00/4e, 500:00/42, 501:00/4f, 502:00/4f, 503:00/54, 504:00/20
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: , 505:ac/53, 506:ba/59, 507:cb/53
Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2004: Not automatically fixing this.

If the above is the case, take a look here:
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) How-To
It's not exactly your distro, but maybe it will help.

oldie71 · 07-25-2006, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joschi1

I'm running Debian 2.6.8-2-386 on a Dell Inspiron laptop. One message that flies by during boot up is a page full of numbers in this format: 418:00/20 followed by the message: Not Automatically Fixing This.

I looked in dmesg to try to read more about this error but it is not reported there. Where can I read a log of the boot up info? Any ideas what this is responding to?

Thanks,

Joschi

I was about having the same problem, apparently
caused by different partition managers (Powerquest PM 8 versus
Paragon PM 7)starting numbering cylinders/sectors
in a different way (0/1).

Oldie71 ak Rainer