Vwaju wrote: > Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check > the boot partition. (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* > documented on the man page!) > > After boot failure, I booted debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and ran > fsck on the boot partition: > > u...@debian:~$ sudo -i > debian:~# fsck –f /dev/hda1 > fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > /: 40679/2338336 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 251828/4674907 blocks > > I don't know how to interpret this output. Does it indicate a problem > with the boot partition? >
No, the filesystem is fine. If you could mount it, that's another sign that it's not a matter of filesystem corruption. > Query: What other problems would I look for, and what tools would I > use? > You should say _why_ you cannot boot. Does GRUB or LILO load? What messages are shown? And please do not start threads unnecessarily. Just reply to the appropriate messages with the new information. -- Look at it this way: Your wife's spending $280 a month on meditation lessons to forget $26,000 of college education. And you're still drinking ordinary scotch? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
