booting problems
 

When it boots up it says

Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly. Press y within () seconds to force file system integrity check

Contains a file system with errors
check forced.
Error reading block 622604
(attempt to read block from file system resulted in short read) while doing inode scan

/:unexpected inconsistency; Runfsck Manually


Help me please!!!!!!! :Pengy:

What distro are you using? And do you have a bootdisk?

I do not have a bootdisk. It's fedora 2

I'm assuming this brings you to a prompt.

Have you tried 'fsck /' ?

how can i run fsck? I'm new to this.

Put in your first cd of the distro install. Boot off the cd. When it goes to ask you to install there should be three choices. Choose (i think) the third on. Whichever one it is to take you to the shell. Once inside the shell type 'linuxrescue'
This will begin a resuce program. In there I type 'fsck' and it will check the hd and try and fix any errors.

Now, I've only done that once and it was a while ago so I might be wrong on the extact steps, but that's the jyst of the idea.