That frood Bourdon, Bruce sassed:
> I've recently installed Red Hat 7 Linux.
>
> Jumping between Gnome and KDE I managed to crash the system, forced me to
> use hard reset.
>
> Now the boot up process fails during Linux's equivelent of MS-Windows
> "Scandisk" and the boot process halts.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
The program you are talking about is called fsck, which is Unix-ese
for "file system checker." When it fails, it should tell you
something like:
File system check failed! Run fsck manually.
So, do that. Take note of the filesystem that failed (it should say
in the error messages). Then run fsck manually on it, like this:
fsck -y /dev/hda1
This example assumes that the filesystem that failed the check lives
on /dev/hda1. Adjust for your situation. Note that the -y says
"whenever you would have asked me a question about whether or not to
fix an error, fix it without actually asking me." You can answer
manually if you want to, but if you want your filesystem to work you
pretty much always need to say yes anyway, so there's little
point. Unless you are a filesystem god and want to hack it yourself,
that is. :)
> I will probably resort to a re-install, only losing the few hours of
> tweaking time, but I'd appreciate knowing how to fix this for the future -
> when I have much more at stake.
Ack! You shouldn't do that unless you have to. The above fix will
take much less of your time, and save you the trouble of remembering
all your customizations.
--
We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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