merci, however, this question i do not receive. i simply receive: (repair filesystem) # 'blink' stupid ekaterina once tried 'y' and 'yes' to this but the result was: y y y y y y ....forever..... please let me add: i believe i was choosing dev/sdc6 originally when attempting to boot to linux. [this is what i remember as habit - but, i now beginning to wonder] lately, when using dev/sdc6 i get 'reboot in 180 seconds' msg linux will only initialize when i choose dev/sdb6 i do not recall having ever used sdb6. however, this i use and i get linux to initialize but with fsck failure. also, i get read only - msg to mount remount to read-write. so, under sdb6 i first: mount -n -o remount,rw / then, i: fsck /dev/sdb6 and i receive the following: parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000) e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sdb6 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes pass 2: Checking directory structure pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts PAss 5: Checking group summary information /dev/sdb6: 81126/234240 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 269842/467712 blocks (repair filesystem) # 'blink' so, i reboot cntrl-D but same problem persists. i did attempt to try fsck /dev/sdc6 [because this is what i believed was my partition] but i receive : WARNING!!!! running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVER filesystem damage. so i choose 'no' continue at times i also receive message: the superblock could not be used or does not read or does not descibe a correct ext2 filesystem. perhaps superblock is corrupt. etc..... ultimately, i can always INIT with /dev/sdb6 only but i can never get past: (repair filesystem) # 'blink' i aprreciate all who help me as i still quite new to this linux but i so desperately want to learn. merci. ekaterina Mirzoni wrote:

try this fsck /dev/yourpartition and when asked do you want to repair filesystem answer yes .. do not run fsck with option such is -a -y or some simillar ----- Original Message ----- From: ":_ . ±||®" To: Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: [suse-ppc] repair filesystem # ?

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hallo,

i try to boot suse linux today and i receive:

activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab . . . failed . . . . fsck.ext2 /dev/sdc6 failed (status 8)! Run it manually! failed laoding keymap mac-us.map.gz failed

finally, after giving root password to login

(repair filesystem ) # 'blink'

i am still relatively new to this os ; however, i did try to source problem within manual with diffikulty.

any assistance very much appreciate.

ekaterina

hallo again, also, i notice : fsck..ext2: no such device or address while attempting to open /dev/sdc6 Possible non-existent or swap device? fsck.ext2 /dev/sdc6 failed (status 8)! Run it manually failed i do attempt to locate swap device but this i am not familiar. i know what swap is but i am not sure how to fix if this is the problem. if i swap something i do not know how or why this happened. thanking you ekaterina