Dave Cotton wrote:
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:41:40 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Are you sure the esc key works while the thing is fsck-ing a large partition?
IRC it will, I thought that is what I did just recently.
What I do remember is a while ago someone phoned me because his machine had locked up. It took me a little while to realise what was really happening.
This machine was running headless, so no display, I got hold of the only screen available and connected it, still nothing, the screen could not use the settings from menu.lst. Noticing the disk activity I realised that fsck was probably running so went for a coffee. When I got back the machine had finally booted.
What the person had been doing was rebooting because he thought it had locked up, so causing fsck to start again.
As soon as it was booted I changed the vga=xxxxx to vga=normal now at least any screen put onto the machine displays something and you can see what's going on.
Why do we have to ape MS all the time?
The system sends out lots of messages, why hide them behind a
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