When you get that message upon kernel boot, you can simply give your
root passwd and that will throw you into a seprate run level and you
can execute fsck by typing:
fsck /dev/hdb1
and you'll be ok...I don't think you really need to add any switches to
it...BUT you might want to check out the man page on it just to be
safe..it's been a while since I've had to do that...also, if all else
fails, or you get worried...you can do the following:
At LILO prompt (assuming kernel image is "newbie":
LILO boot prompt: newbie init=/bin/sh
this will throw you into basically a "maintenance shell", you can then run
fsck and do whatever...I don't THINK that it is mounted when it dumps you
into the shell...but if it is...you can simply do a:
umount /dev/hdb1
mount /dev/hdb1 / ro
then do your thing...
Plz excuse me if I have left a few things out...it's been awhile since
I've had to boot into maintenance shell....but just do that, and you'll be
alright....
Woody
Security Administrator
Localline.com, Oxford, IN
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> For starters, one gentle rebuke: Please include a subject line with your
> posts. Lots of people skip posts with subject lines which are
> meaningless or uninteresting to them (the "Digest" subjects always go in
> my trash bin, for example).
>
> Leston Buell wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> > *** Dropping you to a shell, the system will reboot
> > *** when you leave the shell
> > Give root password for maintenance
> > (or type Control-D for normal startup)
> >
> > hdb1 is the drive on which i have Linux.
> >
> > What should i do?
>
> What has happened here (my best guess anyhow) is that your system was
> rudely interrupted by some sort of crash while in the middle of writing
> to the filesystem. A similar situation can happen with an un-orderly
> shutdown (i.e. power failure). The only solution I know of is to give
> it the root password, go into single user mode, and run fsck from
> there. You might want to man fsck first.
>
> Note that you may have problems here since you only have one Linux
> partition. I don't know if fsck will refuse to check the filesystem on
> which / is mounted. This is a good reason to pay attention to the bits
> in the install manual where it recommends splitting your Linux
> installation over several partitions. But that's spilt milk now.
>
>
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