Ubuntu 7.04 não inicial

[antoniodosantosor]

Tenho dois hd um de 80 e outro de 40, estando neste último instalado o Ubuntu. de repente, o Ubuntu não carrega mais, surgindo a mensagem:
fsck 1.40-wip (14-nov-2006)
/dev/hdb1 contains a file system with errors, check forced
/dev/hdb1
I node 1999302 has illegal block (s)
/dev/hdb1:UNEXPECTDE INCONSISTENCY; RUM FSCK MANUALLY cie, without-a or -p options
FSCK died with exit status 4
                                                                                           FAIL
*An automatic file system check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed
A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted.
The fsck should be performed in maintenancie mode with the root filesystem mounted in read-only mode
*The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only-mode.
A maintenance shell will now be started
After performing system maintenance, press control-D to terminate the maintenance shell and restat the system
giv boot password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue).

[csat]

Já tentou seguir a orientação apontada no texto do utilitário?  Ao que parece ele encontrou defeitos nas trilhas do disco.