Re: How to recover???
You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named, no?). Once you
get booted up to where it would ask you to format the disk, exit to a single user
shell (this option is at the very bottom) and then run fsck from there.
T-SNAKE wrote:
> OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087
> chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup,
> I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do
> anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to alt-fX to
> get another terminal to commence a shut down, so I ^-alt-del. I thought it was
> shutting down fine, but when I rebooted I got the following messege after
> loading the kernel and all kinds of other stuff:
> --start transcribing
> /dev/hda2 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
> Duplicate or bad blocks in use!
>
> /dev/hda2: Unexpected Inconsistency, RUN fsck MANUALLY
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> fsck failed, Please repair manually and reboot.
> Please note that the root file system is currently
> mounted read-only. To remount it read-write:
> # mount -n -o remount,rw/
> Control-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system.
>
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
> ---end transcribing
> /dev/hda2 is my root partition.
> When I give the password, it flashes some lines quickly and then continuously
> scrolls something about "passwd not found".
> I thought booting from a linux boot disk would be of help, but it only goes to
> the same place. I thoguht the resue disk might be of assistance, but not that
> I could tell.
> ***** How the heck do I recover? ******
> Man, I'll never get this machine going. I can't get sendmail to work either.
> thanks,
> Chris
> Screw X, I think I give up on it, having never gotten it to function correctly
> (other than getting it to actually run, but do nothing).
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