inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
This is really quite strange. I was moving my office from one room to another. I hadn't shut down my computer and when I went to do a sudo halt it couldn't find sudo. It was weird but I was in the middle of moving so I powered off my computer with the power switch. Now it won't boot. I'm getting

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Do you have a cdrom installed and can you set your bios to boot from the cd. Yeah, this is what I'm working on right now. It took me about half a dozen tries but I've *finally* got the base install working. I'm not sure why it finally started working but I did have to wipe hda2 a couple of

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Emma On (02/06/03 13:22), Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Ooops. I created a new user by mistake when I was finishing the installation, or maybe it happened before. The result is that /home/emmajane no longer contains my files. Any idea where they might be? I did something like this the other

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:22, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I keep sending these to people directly instead of the list. My apologies!! Ooops. I created a new user by mistake when I was finishing the installation, or maybe it happened before. The result is that /home/emmajane no longer contains my

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:22:54PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I keep sending these to people directly instead of the list. My apologies!! Ooops. I created a new user by mistake when I was finishing the installation, or maybe it happened before. The result is that /home/emmajane no longer

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:22:54PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I keep sending these to people directly instead of the list. My apologies!! Ooops. I created a new user by mistake when I was finishing the installation, or maybe it happened before. The result is that /home/emmajane no longer

Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread David Pastern
Hi guys, Well - i'm at a loss with this. I'm running Woody, kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) and it was all working ok. I needed to get my soundcard working (via82cxxx chipset - onboard sound). I had the modules compiled in the kernel for this. I did an apt-get install sndconfig and installed that to

Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread Jerry Gaiser
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 06:44, David Pastern wrote: Now I did a silly thing - after doing all the necessary stuff I just copied across the System.map and bzImage files to my /boot dir and renamed them to current kernel and .map files - overwriting them. I'm kicking myself for not being my

Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Hi All :) So i'm back on woody this time But i always got one little problem, my soundcard which is a Creative SB128PCI, does not respondI'm using kernel 2.4.18. Can someone tell me which module must i compile in the kernel to make my sound card working properly :) Thanx for all

Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 06:55 am, Jerry Gaiser wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 06:44, David Pastern wrote: Now I did a silly thing - after doing all the necessary stuff I just copied across the System.map and bzImage files to my /boot dir

SB128 PCI problems in woody - Was: Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread David P James
Pierre Dupuis was roused into action on 09/11/02 09:58 and wrote: Hi All :) So i'm back on woody this time But i always got one little problem, my soundcard which is a Creative SB128PCI, does not respondI'm using kernel 2.4.18. Can someone tell me which module must i compile in

Re: SB128 PCI problems in woody - Was: Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Now my problem is solve Which way ? Well I recompile the kernel with sound card support and only es1371 drivers compiled...All is fine now May the force be with you Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] David P James wrote: Pierre Dupuis was roused into action on 09/11/02 09:58 and wrote: Hi All

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: 1. i tried to install win98 to play games 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. 3. so, i put in my debian cd 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 4. it boots up, all good... 5. login, re-run lilo 6. lilo seems

attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Forrest English
1. i tried to install win98 to play games 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. 3. so, i put in my debian cd 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 4. it boots up, all good... 5. login, re-run lilo 6. lilo seems to work fine. 7. i reboot 8. I9990305 is all that apears where i

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On 4 May 2001, Forrest English wrote: FE FE 1. i tried to install win98 to play games FE 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. FE 3. so, i put in my debian cd FE 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 FE 4. it boots up, all good... FE 5. login, re-run lilo FE 6. lilo seems to work

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Forrest English
On Fri, 4 May 2001 22:34:41 -0500 (CDT), Petr [Dingo] Dvorak whispered to the router: !! !! either add 'install=/boot/boot.b' line in /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo, or run !! /sbin/install-mbr and then rerun lilo, then reboot, and as long the win 98 is !! on 1st primary partition and linux on

Linux won't boot -- bitten by file system bug?

1999-08-23 Thread Matthias Murra
I'm in desperate need for help and I hope someone on this list is able to help me out, I'd really appreciate it. I shut down my Debian box last night, and turned it off when it displayed the message Power down. When I tried to boot tonight, it simply displayed LI and did nothing. Now the LILO

Re: ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot

1998-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Frankie wrote: HTML code - please don't; it's a pain in the neck for ordinary mailreaders. I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer. /etc/fstab has nothing to do with booting; its job is to tabulate which

ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot

1998-12-02 Thread Frankie
I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer. The reason I have it on the 3rd ide channel, is that my old 486 had no problems with drives 2.1M, but my (second-hand) pentium does. I have an old western digital