See below.
At 11:01 AM 5/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just installed RH 6.2 on a 486/66 with a 540MB IDE HDD. The
>installation went fine except upon booting I get:
>
> Checking root filesystem
> fsck.ext2: Permission Denied
>
> An Error Occurred during the filesystem check.
>
>It then prompts to login as root and fix the problem.
>
>What do I fix?
Were the follow-up instructions really as vacuous as your paraphrase
suggests? Normally, when an auto run of e2fsck fails, what you do is:
reboot into single-user mode (you probably do this
by typing "Linux single" at the LILO: prompt,
but this bit is installation specific)
log in as root
run e2fsck or fsck.ext2 (same program, different names)
manually
accept all of its "suggestions".
Your case may be different; "permission denied" suggests that the program
may not be executable. So go ahead with the above instructions, but if you
find you cannot run e2fsck manually, then check to make sure
-- the probram is present (probably in /sbin)
-- the program is mode 700 (rwxr------) or mode
755 (rwxr-xr-x) in an "ls -l /sbin/e2fsck"
or "ls -l /sbin/fsck.ext2". If not, use
chmod to change it.
>I did a custom installation with 1 64MB sap partition and the rest
>on a '/' partition. Should I have created a boot partion (/boot)?
Definitely not. A 540 mB hard disk is tiny by today's standards, and by the
standards of Red Hat in particular. Breaking it up into separate partitions
(other than / and swap; I assume "sap" is a typo) invites trouble.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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