os doesn't boot, "filesystem needs repair."

[Paula J. Lindsay]

Hi everyone,
I have an IBM array box running RHE AS 4 with the kernel 2.6.9-42.  This 
box has been down for almost 2 weeks.  I had to do a filesystem rebuild, and
then a filesystem repair.  I could not finish the repair because it was 
going on 3 days of repairing.  I don't think this is unusual because the 
box is a total
of 1.5 terabytes.  Anyway, I've run all the hardware diagnostics and 
come up with everything passing these tests.  IBM wants me to run an 
ibm.iso to
clarify that no hardware is bad, but I'm going to the RH summit 
tomorrow, so I've got to get this thing up today.  I have come to the 
conclusioin, that I
will have to reinstall the os.  I cannot get the box to boot, it tells 
me everytime that the "filesystem is corrupt and needs to run a repair."
I then have to give it the root passwd and
it goes into the repair mode again.  Does anybody have any advise 
besides reinstalling or going thru another 3-4 days of repairing the 
filesystem.  Maybe
someone has seen this problem before and has a "quick" fix?  Any 
help/advice/opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Paula
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