How to recover???
OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087
chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup,
I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do
anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to alt-fX to
get another terminal to commence a shut down, so I ^-alt-del. I thought it was
shutting down fine, but when I rebooted I got the following messege after
loading the kernel and all kinds of other stuff:
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/dev/hda2 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
Duplicate or bad blocks in use!
/dev/hda2: Unexpected Inconsistency, RUN fsck MANUALLY
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck failed, Please repair manually and reboot.
Please note that the root file system is currently
mounted read-only. To remount it read-write:
# mount -n -o remount,rw/
Control-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
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/dev/hda2 is my root partition.
When I give the password, it flashes some lines quickly and then continuously
scrolls something about "passwd not found".
I thought booting from a linux boot disk would be of help, but it only goes to
the same place. I thoguht the resue disk might be of assistance, but not that
I could tell.
***** How the heck do I recover? ******
Man, I'll never get this machine going. I can't get sendmail to work either.
thanks,
Chris
Screw X, I think I give up on it, having never gotten it to function correctly
(other than getting it to actually run, but do nothing).
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