Hi, On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:34:28PM +0100, John K O Brien wrote: > My /boot filesystem is being remounted shortly after start-up as read-only. > > I get the following messages... > > journal_bmap_Ra7a5f568: journal block not found at offset 12 on ide0(3,1) > Aborting journal on device ide0(3,1) That's a fatal error message indicating that ext3 has been unable to access a part of its journal file. Either the journal metadata has become corrupted (eg. you had a .journal file and tried to delete it), or there's a bad block in the journal. Are there any other log messages nearby to help narrow it down? --Stephen