sudden hda problem

[Chris Hoelscher]

I've got a 'router' box that just went belly-up.  It's Mitel Network's
free version, which is Red Hat (probably 6.x vintage) based using ext2. 
What I get is it starts to boot up, (get the Mitel splash screen,
uncompressing Linux, starts through the hardware, gets past identifying
the floppy) and then I get a hda not ready error - complains about a
particular inode and block.

Me-thinks my drive is toast, but was wondering how to force an fsck on
boot, and what parms might be best to try in this type of situation?

Thanks -
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Chris Hoelscher <mohoelx at sbcglobal.net>