On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:36, Trevor wrote: > When a system doesn't boot, what commands are useful to boot it back up? > I'm thinking fsck, etc. > > It is a RH7 box (ext2). The system loads the kernel, then when it tries to > mount the drives it goes into a system check. The system check can't fix > the inode/bad blocks on the HDD. Regardless of what drive I boot, the same > thing happens. > > So it dumps me into the manual mode and tells me to run fsck on the drives. > Can anyone give me some basic troubleshooting tips to see if I can get the > box to boot? It just drops me at the repair-fs prompt.
look at the message that says which partition is having problems probably /dev/hdax where x is the partition number. At the prompt you are dumped to (single user mode BTW) type fsck /dev/hdax (x is the partition identified above) THen anser all the questions it asks you. I always say yes so I started using the command fsck -y /dev/hdax it will automatically anwer all questions with a yes. THen hope that there is nothing corrupted that matters. If something is really bad after the fsck you are looking at restoring the box. You do have backups, right? Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
