On Mon, 22 Nov 1999,hugahog wrote:
| -----Original Message-----
| From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 10:00 AM
| Subject: Re: [newbie] need help
|
|
| >On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote:
| >> Hi Gurus,
| >>
| >> I have been running LM 6.1 on my ide drive c (hdc) and have it
| >> somewhat configured enought to get online, print, etc.
| >>
| >> Today I installed another copy on a clean drive which is hdb. It
| >> boots OK but I don't have it configured as yet.
| >>
| >> My problem is now my original (hdc) won't boot, drops me to a
| >> shell for maintenance :-(
| >>
| >So, what happens when you fsck the drive/partitions? Does
| >that fix it or does it continue to drop you to a shell for
| >maintenance?
| > John
| >
|
| John,
| When I fsck the partitions they all check clean except if I
| fsck /swap or / . When I check / a warning note comes
| up saying If I fsck a mounted file system serious damage
| could occur so I backed out.
| Thanks
| Larry
When you are dropped to the shell, do
fsck -t ext2 hdc# (where # = the partition number you want to check).
This way you are telling fsck which partition to check. If you use / or /swap,
you may be trying to check a partition on the hdb drive which may be mounted in
read - write mode. For better information you can do man fsck while in the
maintenance shell. Don't know if this will help, but it looks right to me.
--
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The measure of a man is in his honor ...
