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[James PEARSON <jpearson3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would like all who responded and helped me solve my problem.

> > The electricity was cut off today while my SuSE8.1 (KDE3.1) system was up
> > and running. The power has since been restored but I can't get my
> > filesystems up and running. (
> >
> > The error  message goes something like this...
> > fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root system is
> > currently mounted read only. To remount it read-write do
> >    mount -n -o remount, rw/


I got my hard drive back on line by doing a
fsck /dev/hda7


As I also lost access I my cdrom, I had to short and reset the CMOS  in order 
to able to use it again. 

Everything is work ok again.

Thanks alot everyone!

James Pearson 
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On Saturday 22 March 2003 22:09, keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> You will need to boot from SuSE CD-ROM (1or 2) and select the rescue
> system.
>
> See page 287 of SuSE 8.1 admin guide.
>
> When you run the rescue system, it will install a MINIMAL linux system in
> ram, and enable you to run fsck on the unmounted filesystems of your hard
> drive.
>
> Hopefully, it will check and repair the partitions.
>
> Page 290 of the 8.1 admin guide tells more about e2fsck.
>
> What type of FS's have set up?
>
> I have only repaired ext2 FS's under SuSE 6.1.
>
> Same principal under 8.1 I guess.
>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, jpearson3 wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > The electricity was cut off today while my SuSE8.1 (KDE3.1) system was up
> > and running. The power has since been restored but I can't get my
> > filesystems up and running. (I am currently writing this using my back
> > hard drive...)
> >
>