FC-4 not booting

kris.c · 07-05-2007, 05:07 AM

Things were actually working fine until today. When i boot my machine, I am getting the following message :

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 : File system with error , check forced.
It then shows a progress bar which runs upto 9.4% and then it displays -10.4% and the screen goes blank and nothing happens after that even for more than 5 mins.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can resolve this?

Simon Bridge · 07-05-2007, 05:32 AM

Yup... fs is corrupt. Congrats.
Time to learn about forensics... you did have backups right?

Use a live distro (or FC4 in rescue mode) and run fsck on each partition. You may get lucky.

If you have more than one PV, then you may be able to rescue the data on some of them.

kris.c · 07-05-2007, 06:38 AM

>backup?
Nope. I dont.:|
Actually,I dont even have the installation cds right now. Is there some way of booting into the rescue mode without the discs? I have another machine that runs FC-4.Is there some way to revive this system through the network?

mikieboy · 07-05-2007, 08:10 AM

I don't network, but you could use the other machine to download and burn a rescue disk (I use Knoppix). Use this to recover your data and then look into doing a net re-install of the corrupted filesystem. If all else fails you should be able to burn a new Fedora Core iso and use that to re-install.

kris.c · 07-05-2007, 08:30 AM

Thanks. I went into run level 1 and ran an fsck. Lost some data in one of the sub-directories, but the system is atleast booting now. Besides, its now complaining that it is not able to detect my sound card.

kris.c · 07-05-2007, 08:35 AM

BTW,Cool sig