Help... I'm screwed!!!

kurgan70 · 06-02-2001, 02:09 PM

I have RH 7.1... Everything is (was) installed and working fine... tried to run X and it crashed... i rebooted and can't login as user or root. It takes the name and password and just brings me back to login screen... I tried doing fsck, but it says something about superblock. Please Help!!!!

jharris · 06-02-2001, 02:46 PM

Try using the 'single' option at the LILO prompt. So if you're linux image was called 'linux' you would use

Code:

LILO: linux single

IIRC Redhat drops you straight into a root shell. If you can't login how did you try running fsck???

You can only run fsck on a file system that isn't mounted, otherwise you might get some 'interesting' results. If you need to fsck your root filesystem you will need to boot from a disk (not one that mounts your root fs!!) and then run fsck....

HTH

Jamie...

kurgan70 · 06-02-2001, 03:49 PM

thanks for the post.... i did log in as linux single and ran fsck... thats where i got the superblock error. Also is the /etc/fstab file... it looks like my entries for /var and /home are gone?! what the heck happened??

unSpawn · 06-02-2001, 05:20 PM

run e2fsck and specify another superblock. its sposed to be at 8193*n, so its next at 16385 etc:
"e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/(device)"
dump to /lost+found and try to resurrect fstab etc from lookin at the contents.