At 00:36 13/11/01 +0000, Aedan McGhie/Scotland wrote:
>Running Redhat 7 with a vanilla 2.2 kernel on an AMD Athlon.
>
>I get this message when the machine boots:
<snip>
>So I put in the root password and get
>(Repair filesystem) 1#
This should be sash which is running - a minimal, statically linked shell
with several built-in commands (type 'help' for a list).
It's expecting you to type in something like:
fsck /dev/hda1
(there is a program called 'yes' which you are running which - can you
guess - keeps saying 'Y' - the fact that both it and sash are runnable is a
good sign). NB fsck is just a wrapper program. If it can read /etc/fstab,
it will then attempt to run the version of fsck appropritate for the
filesystem (e.g. e2fsck / fsck.minix / ...)
I've never seen this on a Linux box - usually it just runs fsck
automatically. I don't want to scare you too much, but if you have access
to another box, you might want to get hold of a root/boot disk and reboot /
run fsck from there (when I saw this on a HPUX9 box it took a long time to
sort out).
HTH
Colin
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