my apologies to all who have to read this again, but i posted this and haven't received a response. i don't know whether this is because my mail server snafu'd or what, but i'm reposting it because i REALLY need help with this. as additional info, i'll add that my filesystem's ext2, i have mandrake 6.1, bash works fine when i get to the maintenance shell, dmesg shows that all my IDE dev's were recognized and running the install cds again with the 'update' option does not help. i'm worried that choosing 'install' will overwrite my previous config. (something i do not want to happen at any cost.) will someone be a pal and lend a hand? :)
hello. big problem. i had to disconnect my system components for maintenance and when i reconnected them (with a new cpu), everything went haywire on the bootup. since then, i managed to get to the "unmounting old kernel" bit. then, it says that my linux partition (hda3) was not cleanly unmounted last time, check forced. fsck goes to work, then exits at a consistent 4.6% with error code 11. i then have the option to go in for maintenance, but my filesystem's now read-only, so i can't do a thing. please let me know what fsck is finding wrong and/or how to mount the filesystem to read-write. i can't change any config files without that, and i have a new cpu and mainboard on, so a recompile is in order. also, fyi, i replaced an isa sound card with a pci sound card and removed a hard drive (slave, not master) help, please... must run. my windows went nutty too and i only have a limited time left before it magically reboots itself. ~phil
