Re: How to recover???
When I get these kind of panics, the first thing I reach for is my
'Installation' diskettes!! ... I suggest you try that and see..
-J.
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, T-SNAKE wrote:
> 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:
> --start transcribing
> /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):
>
> ---end transcribing
> /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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