Ken, I just repeated the scenario, however, I now have linux 2.6 as well as 2.4 available. Upon selecting 2.6 it requested whether it should check the file system, which (previously 2.4 wouldn't request - it would just do it), then after checking the file system continued to boot (whereas 2.4 would fall into a shell with the instruction to reboot with Control-D). Pretty much the desired behaviour, though I would like it to default to check rather than not.
By the way, I initially chose to boot via 2.4, which panicked (as did I). After booting in 2.6 I was subsequently able to boot 2.4. All file system, other than /boot (which is ext2), are ext3, though they had originally been ext2. Thanks, Greg Wood. On 21 Jun 2004, at 21:27, Ken Foskey wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 14:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When power is unceremoniously removed from my RedHat > 9.0/Linux 2.4 computer, during reboot, it runs a check > of the hard disc drive. Its messages indicate that it > has corrected all encountered errors, however upon > completion it always reports that it had failed, then > drops into a shell waiting for me to do god-knows-what, > then reboot the machine by typing Control-D. It is trying to tell you that it cannot safely and easily recover. Look to the previous messages and it should tell you to run fsck on a specific harddisk partition /dev/hdab for example. Running this you should be prompted for somethings to correct and all will be well. If the power is likely to disappear on you then consider ext3 instead of ext2 to recover faster and easier. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
