Re: grub/lilo question
The reason I'm asking for this because in the past I been using GRUB
for RH and now I'm switch to Debian and now using LILO w. ext3 fs.
The problem I have right now is if someone turn the power off without
shutting
computer down proper way, then when the system turn back on, it go through
fsck .../dev/sda1 and got to the point:
/dev/sda1: UNXEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p option)
at this point, it give me a option to:
Give root passwd for maintenance
(or type Control-D for nornal startup):
This is the problem for me because this machine is only networking and had
no monitor
attach to it, so I don't know what going with the system.
Is there a way to force the system run fsck without going to maintenane mode
to run fsck for /dev/sda1 ???
Regards,
Victory,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carla Schroder" <carla@bratgrrl.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: grub/lilo question
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 1:46 pm, Victory wrote:
> > Some one please let me know the advantage/disadvantage
> > about grub/lilo ext2/ext3.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Victor.
>
> 1. GRUB contains its own little command shell, for passing in or editing
> commands at boot time. It can read from a configuration file. It supports
> many filesystems, currently BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux
> ext2fs, ReiserFS, and VSTa fs; and blocklists for files that do not appear
in
> filesystems, such as chainloaders.
>
> GRUB reads filesystems and kernel executables, rather than inflexibly
> restricting the user to disk geometry. Install and remove operating
systems
> as needed. Boot bare kernels, passing in modules and parameters from the
> command line. GRUB will even download OS images over the network.
>
> GRUB does not need a /boot partition, just let it own the MBR.
>
> 2. ext3 is the journaled version of ext2. It's really just an extension to
> ext2. You can convert back and forth, I don't know why you would want to,
but
> you can. With other journaling filesystems, such as ReiserFS or JFS, there
is
> no compatibility with other filesystems, so once you choose it, it's not
easy
> to make a change. There is no reason I can think of to not use a
journaling
> filesystem, any of the major Linux ones are good.
>
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