Hello, I installed SuSE on a computer for my Aunt. My little cousins, as it turned out, were not logging off. Instead, they were just turning the power off. The computer no longer boots up. I talked to them via the telephone, and I don't even think it gets to the LILO prompt. Is there any easy way to fix the damage, or is a complete reinstall necessary? I'm in Moscow Russia, and they are in Houston, Texas so I can only fax them the info and get some messages to them via email of a friend. I know it could be a hard drive crash too.
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George, barring a HD crash the more likely scenario is that the diskcheck routine was finding an error it couldn't repair on the fly and resorted to single user maintenance mode. This would require entering the root password, then run fsck manually, then shutdown properly with ctrl-D to get restarted. Happened to me quite a couple of times on my old laptop with a dying disk (it still works, but the useable disk space has been reduced to about 80% of the original). Hope this helps, Alex. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/