I imagine Richard is sleeping around now, so let me see if I can offer some
suggestions.
What are your partitions? It sounds like hda8 is a swap volume. That isn't a
filesystem, so you shouldn't try to check it with fsck, which checks
filesystems. You only want to fsck your actual filesystems.
You need to run fsck on each filesystem partition that is part of the
overall filesystem that Linux mounts, then tell it "yes" to everything it
asks. If this doesn't get you a bootable Linux system, post again, but this
time be very specific about your hard-disk organization, the exact commands
you are entering, and the associated errors. Also mention how much memory
you have in your system (might it be so little that you need swap to boot
... or, more accurately, to run through your init scripts?).
>From what you've written, I *think* all you are running into is the fact
that you can't fsck a swap partition.
At 07:53 AM 2/7/00 +0700, frans toruan wrote [in part]:
>At 11:56 06/02/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, frans toruan wrote:
>>> today, i broke down my linux-box.
...
[Richard suggested ...]
>>Just bootup once more, enter the root passwd, and type
>>fsck /dev/hdax
>>Note i say fsck and i use NO options.
>>Answer Y to all questions, BTW, there could be hundreds of them and
>>all "should" be ok.
>
>thanks for the advice, Richard.
>i've done that, but still fails.the response was as follows :
> fsck.ext2 : Is a directory while trying to open /
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 ( 9-Jan-1999 )
> fsck : fsck.swap : not found
> fsck : Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hda8.
>
>could you give more hints on this message? did i lost my swap directory? do
>i have to reinstall?
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