On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dom Incollingo wrote:
Hello,
I installed 9.3 on an HP ZD7000 laptop about a week ago. (I previously had 9.2 on the laptop for about 2 months with no problems.) Apart from several annoying problems with Gnome, 9.3 seemed to be working fine. This morning I tried to reboot the laptop. But the laptop will not boot. It gets midway through the boot process and it shuts itself off. I've tried booting the laptop 5 times, but the same thing happened each time. Before the boot process stops, I notice messages indicating that the "filesystem is not clean".
How can I diagnose/correct this problem? Is there a way to determine if this if my system got corrupted or if this is a hardware failure? If the system is corrupted, can I fix it without re-installing?
One possible approach is to select the "Failsafe" mode on the initial boot prompt. As I recall, this brings the system up in a "single-user" mode and runs fsck on the disk subsystem. A second approach is to boot from DVD 1 and select the "Installation" mode at the initial boot prompt. Just take the default action on each of the screens displayed until you get to the one where it prompts you to select what you want to do. Select repair. This will, also, run fsck to repair the file system. Then it will go through all of the installed packages and re-install any corrupted packages. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard