On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 16:14 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 06/07/12 03:49, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, my friends suffered a power failure at their farm while their computer was running opensuse 11.4. When the power came back on, opensuse won't boot back up.
When they try to boot the computer, they get to a screen that says
FAILED:module ata_piix not found
I tried putting the computer in text mode (level 3) to see if I could do a zypper up or zypper dup in the hopes that that would repair the problem. But it didn't work, what came up was a notice in red that says something like REPAIR FILE SYSTEM.
Can someone on the list help me to correct this problem?
Thanks.
The assumption to what I write is that the file system being used is one of the ext fs - ext2, ext3, ext4. If it is reiserfs then slightly different instructions will apply.
At the grub boot menu, type in 'init 1' (without the quotes).
Login as root at the prompt.
type 'fdisk -l' <ENTER> to get the listing of the HDD/HDDs being used - the idea here is to find which partition contains the '/root' or the operating system. Let's say that this found to be 'sda2'. Once you know what this partition is, type this:
mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda2 [The 'o' here is the letter 'o' and not zero '0' - right? :-) ]
then type in
e2fsck /dev/sda2
and answer the questions which come up (in all cases the answer would probably be "yes"). HOWEVER, note here that you do NOT use the "-p" parameter when executing the above: you do NOT want automatic fixes to be done by e2fsck because you want to see what the information about what the corruptions were.
After the error fixing has been done, type a slightly modified version of the command above:
remount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 <ENTER>
Type in 'init 5' - or simply reboot - to boot into the system.
BC
Thanks Basil, that fixed the problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org