When I get these kind of panics, the first thing I reach for is my 'Installation' diskettes!! ... I suggest you try that and see..
-J. =============================================================================== In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: > OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087 > chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup, > I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do > anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to alt-fX to > get another terminal to commence a shut down, so I ^-alt-del. I thought it was > shutting down fine, but when I rebooted I got the following messege after > loading the kernel and all kinds of other stuff: > --start transcribing > /dev/hda2 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced > Duplicate or bad blocks in use! > > /dev/hda2: Unexpected Inconsistency, RUN fsck MANUALLY > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > > fsck failed, Please repair manually and reboot. > Please note that the root file system is currently > mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: > # mount -n -o remount,rw/ > Control-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system. > > Give root password for maintenance > (or type Control-D for normal startup): > > ---end transcribing > /dev/hda2 is my root partition. > When I give the password, it flashes some lines quickly and then continuously > scrolls something about "passwd not found". > I thought booting from a linux boot disk would be of help, but it only goes to > the same place. I thoguht the resue disk might be of assistance, but not that > I could tell. > ***** How the heck do I recover? ****** > Man, I'll never get this machine going. I can't get sendmail to work either. > thanks, > Chris > Screw X, I think I give up on it, having never gotten it to function correctly > (other than getting it to actually run, but do nothing). > -- > '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ > Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv > T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission > CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno > ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]