Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2004-02-24 at 19:51 +0200, Rh Conacher wrote:
Today I was unable to get my Suse 9.0 system to boot as each time I Ctrl-D'd it rebooted and told me to run fsck manually.
Of course: it will not boot till you run fsck manually, exactly as it says. If it is giving a prompt, it is expecting you to run fsck right then and there. When you correct the problem, then ^D will close and reboot - this time correctly, as you are supposed to have corrected the error :-p When it wanted to fsck it was asking me for the root password. entering it and pressing enter brought up that the system could not find locale. ??
I tried the rescue to no avail and even entered the command fsck -VAa / into the additional options with NO luck.
Not "/", but /dev/hdaX, where X is the number of the partition you have to check, and hda might be hdb, or whatever. You must know that yourself. In my case with all the partition in the fstasb file I figured it would just be better to walk through that and fsck the lot.
Hold on a moment... Additional options? It is a command to be entered at a command line prompt. Where are you typing it? When LiLo rears its bootloader it has a few options namely Boot from local harddisk, boot safely, rescue mode and a couple of others. Just below it is a space to enter cli commands. That is where I added the additional options.
How the hell do I get my system back by completing the fsck!!
Well...
The man pages of e2fsck and resiserfsck are printed at the end of the SuSE admin book just for these ocassions. Bloody hell, why did they have to call it another name! Why not just call it fsck related man pages. I'll have a look but I doubt it is going to show me anything that I haven't already seen in the special edition if Using Linux or my Linux+ certification book.
Desperate Hylton
I understand those feelings. There is always a first time; the next will be easier. ALOT EASIER. I am never going to forget how to run FSCK on a system again, I think.
-- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================