Re: checking boot partition with fsck

2009-04-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Vwaju wrote: > On Apr 13, 1:10 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Th

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
On Apr 13, 1:10 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > 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.

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

2009-04-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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: