Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
Hi, if you find any way to boot or chroot your system, you can try to reinstall everything (apt-get --reinstall). You shouldn't run e2fsck -y because it will try to fix EVERYTHING without prompting. regards Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Mark
Sound like things didnt go well... a) boot with knoppix b) attempt to backup important data (email,documents..) c) see if you can get info for recreating your system.. CHROOT if possible and dpkg --get-selections (get other comments as I am not a GURU) d) see if other can suggest a way to recover

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-11 Thread nori heikkinen
on Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:55:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga insinuated: > > hi ya > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > > > i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck > > declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it > > dies, so i knoppix-boot and manual

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck > declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it > dies, so i knoppix-boot and manually e2fsck -y the thing so i don't > have to sit there and babysit it. it fi