Re: fsck failed

[Chris Baker <electro@trylon.1939worldsfair.com>]

"Jordan Curzon" <curzonj@hotmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for the help, my system is running.
> i tried to add a user and it seemed to start looping. ^Z didn't get me out. 
> so I pressed cnt-cmd-power
> 
> when fsck ran it fail and the system wants me to "manualy repair the fs" 
> What do I do?

Log in as root and run e2fsck on the partition.

> Also is there are way to get get out of a process without killing the 
> machine when ^z dosn't work.

Be patient :-)

A lot of these old mac's are dog slow.  You might try cmd-f2 to get a
new virtual console.  Or control-c to kill the process.

Good luck,

cbb