Thanks.  I got it back running following most of your suggestions.

Bobby


---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:35:48 +0800
>From: John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: boot error during SL5.0 startup  
>To: "sc >> Mailling list for Scientific Linux users worldwide" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Bobby Barnett wrote:
>> Hi Troy,
>> 
>> I have been using SL5 for about 6 months without any problems.  I installed this with CD's downloaded from your site.  My machine is a Sun workstation with 2 core and two disks that were linked together during this install.
>> 
>> I was in a hurry to logout on Friday morning and instead of logging out, I hit shutdown instead.  Now I can not boot the system.  I get the error
>> fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc
>> [FAILED]  
>> 
>> I can't seem to work around this.  I briefly tried the rescue disk without much success. This computer is for protein crystallographic refinement and it is a one man shop, and unfortunately without a linux support staff.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  
>
>Reboot the rescue CD. Allow it to find and mount existing installations. 
>Do you feel like you're getting conflicting advice about now? (I'm 
>right, he's wrong!).
>
>For some reason, your system is trying to fsck a whole disk, not a 
>partition. Probably, there's an error in /etc/fstab.
>
>Your rescue system should tell you where it's mounted stuff. Use the 
>chroot command to go there:
>chroot /mnt/sysimage # or whatever
>vim /etc/fstab -c /hdc
># If you're trying to mount /dev/sdc, change it to /dev/sdc1. Use the 
>arrows to position to the "c" than type "a1" and press <ESC>
>If the result looks with, enter ":wq" then
>exit
>and try to boot from the hard disk.
>
>If not, post us the contents of /etc/fstab _from the installed system_
>
>If you don't like vim, nano should be present too, but it confuses me.
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>-- 
>
>Cheers
>John
>
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