On Monday 08 November 2010 09:58:16 Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 08 November 2010 01:51:10 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/11/07 23:25 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
I guess the way to go for fsck information would be to find a forum concerned with GRUB.
Once you see any of the kernel & init messages leading up to the recovery shell prompt, Grub has long since finished doing anything it can do. Discussing this on a Grub forum would be 100% off-topic.
Then beyond a Google search on "fsck", the obvious clear next stip is reinstall, .....
There have been developments. Remembering your caveat that there were likely to be problems in running fsck manually when it had failed to produce results automatically, I decided to run it once, simply to get a feel for how it worked, so I ran: fsk /dev/sda6 which caused it to ask for confirmation to correct errors. When it finished, I rebooted to the same repair screen, ran fsck again, and it reported that sda6 was clean, which was very rewarding. The "failed" line in the actions report, which was about inconsistent system clock, was now marked "skipped" instead. Actually, it is the date that is wrong, being sometime in 2002; the time of day, which I had set after the resetting of the BIOS, is accurate. Then I wondered why, if sda6 was clean, why I had been returned to the repair screen, and so noticed that the INCONSISTENCY it had been worrying about was now reported on sda7 (the /home partition), so I ran fsck on that partition. A reboot brought the system to its present state, which is that the desktop is now up partially. The chameleon is still there, with the progress gauge (with no progress), but the upper-left quadrant is occupied by the Desktop Folder window. neither the folder nor the rest of the screen is populated. This would seem to be progress. What I would like to do is to run fsk on sda7 again, but I am unsure how to reboot, since there is no button to do so, and I am reluctant to screw things up again by using the OFF switch. Actually, I think that switch does an orderly shutdown before removing power, but I would like to be sure. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org