Subject: Re: linux no longer boots :(
From: Stew Benedict (stewb@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 09:28:16 MST
Try e2fsck /dev/hdx, with x being whatever partition is generating the
message.
Stew Benedict
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Josh Forman wrote:
> on 1/26/2000 4:36 AM, Graham Leggett at minfrin@sharp.fm wrote:
>
> > Josh Forman wrote:
> >
> >> Uh-oh...major probs here... Linux isn't even booting fully anymore...
> >
> > Linux refuses to start up if your filesystem doesn't pass is consistency
> > check. If the automatic fix procedure doesn't work, then it will ask you
> > to fix it manually.
> >
> >> First it says the filesystem with errors was found (my root fs)....check
> >> forced...(that's nothing new)
> >
> > If that's not new to you then there's a problem - are you shutting down
> > your machine correctly after you are finished with it, or are you just
> > pulling the plug? If you don't go through a proper shutdown, you can
> > cause filesystem damage, which seems to have happened here. The same
> > goes for any OS, Unix, NT, whatever.
> I shut it down normally. I just meant that I had seen it before.
>
> >> then it says something about an inconsistency found (in CAPS!) and tha t I
> >> should run fsck "manually" I try that and it just spits out a version line
> >> or something.
> >>
> >> Before I tried fsck, it says give root password for routine maintenance, or
> >> hit control-d for normal startup. I tried the control-D and it shuts down
> >> almost instantly.
> >
> > And did you enter your root password for routine maintenance? When you
> > do that, you get dropped into a shell so that you can fix the problem
> > manually.
> yeah, I put in the root pw, and then type "fsck" - all I get is a version
> line - -h doesn't give any help.
>
> if that's not what I am supposeed to do, please tell me what I *am* supposed
> to do.
>
> Thanks.
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