major hard drive problems!

[Aaron Vegh]

Hi all,
I recently reinstalled fedora core 2 on a Dell laptop. It was working
fine prior to the reinstall, but after the install completed, I was
given error message similar to the following:

First, during the boot process...

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 00:07.1
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.

a bit later in the startup process, the startup is halted as fsck is
run on the startup volume, with a segmentation fault. In dmesg, the
following hints:

general protection fault: ea38
CPU:    0
EIP:    0050:[<00003319>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00210046
eax: 00000246   ebx: 00000001   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
esi: 000000ff   edi: 00200014   ebp: c260bea0   esp: c260be98
ds: 0058   es: 0000   ss: 0018
Process fsck.ext2 (pid: 3254, stackpage=c260b000)
Stack: 5c0f5a94 0000bea0 00000058 00ff0246 beb40050 00000001 530a0000 00200216
       00485c5f c8af0000 ffffffff d0be9126 00000010 ffffffff 00200246 00000018
       00200018 c260bf66 000000ff ffffffff ffffffff 002341e3 00000003 ffffffff
Call Trace:    [<d0be9126>] [<c0150000>] [<d0be95d7>] [<d0beafd1>] [<c01366c4>]
  [<d0bea268>] [<c0160a6e>] [<c013da85>] [<c0108997>]

Code:  Bad EIP value.

Now, I can mount the drives no problem when I use a rescue disk, but I
can't startup from this hard drive! Please help. :-)

Thanks,
Aaron.
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