On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> ok all is fine and well, but when i boot i have to use a floppy linux sys
> disk to use lilo and thats kinda annoying. what can i do so i just see lilo
> w/ no disk. also in lilo i dont see my win98 hard drive. not good at all.
> please help on that one. also after i get through that, when linux loads i
> get the error message " hda2 file system w/ errors, check forced" then it
> just goes south from there and tells me i have to give my root pwd for admin
> use. i just want linux! (but these problems dont detur me from getting things
> to work) hope this is my last really stupid newbie Q.
> thanks
>
At this point, to fix your file system problems, get/make a
"rescue" disk and type "rescue" at the LILO prompt. Then,
when it's finished booting from the rescue disk type
"e2fsck hda2"
I would recommend reading the "man" page for e2fsck. There
are a lot of options you might want to consider using.
--
John Aldrich
COL Tech Support
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