boot problem -

windstory · 02-17-2009, 05:32 AM

At booting centos 5.2 x86, I got an error - file system check. dropping you to a shell as attached screen shot.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4079/booterrorak3.jpg

How can I solve this?

ajlewis2 · 02-17-2009, 05:57 AM

Enter your root password and the Enter key. I've seen this a few times when fsck needs to be run. After you enter the password you will see what needs to be done. After you do it, the system will start correctly.

windstory · 02-17-2009, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajlewis2

Enter your root password and the Enter key. I've seen this a few times when fsck needs to be run. After you enter the password you will see what needs to be done. After you do it, the system will start correctly.

ajlewis2,
Thanks for your reply.

I enter my password, and I got this promt.

Quote:

(Repair filesystem) 1 #

What should I do?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 02-17-2009, 06:18 AM

Type "fsck -y" (without quotes) to check the root filesystem.

ajlewis2 · 02-17-2009, 06:22 AM

Or if you know what partition you are having the problem on, you can run it with just that. The -y will keep you from having to answer Yes to the questions.

fsck /dev/hda1 (or sda1 or whatever the root partition is)

windstory · 02-17-2009, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajlewis2

Or if you know what partition you are having the problem on, you can run it with just that. The -y will keep you from having to answer Yes to the questions.

fsck /dev/hda1 (or sda1 or whatever the root partition is)

Thanks kind replies.

After "fsck -y", I got

Quote:

(Repair filesystem) 2 #

Now what should I do?

ajlewis2 · 02-17-2009, 06:29 AM

Repeat. It looks like it is wanting to repair a second filesystem.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 02-17-2009, 06:40 AM

It will keep on coming to the prompt until its finished with checking the filesystem.
-y option as told before will need your interaction but is safer. You can omit it and check the filesystem directly if you know where / is mounted.