Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

[Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk>]

Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> 

Shaul,
thanks for your reply.

> You might want to enter
> 
>     init=/bin/sh
> 
> at the lilo prompt (assuming you have lilo) in order to skip the system
> initializations and check that partition manually with the file system
> debug/repair tools.

Yes, I have lilo, I'll try this. What are the file system debug/repair tools
that you speak of?

> This doesn't look to me a UDMA matter since other partitions on the
> same disk (hde) are flawless.
> What stuff was there? /usr? /var?

You mean on the uncleanly mounted partition? I'm not sure. But if I can use
that init= trick I will check...

thanks
alex


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