I cannot enter into my Linux OS. Haaalp meee.
 

Uh. Nasty power outage, and the computer dropped while I was in Red Hat 7.1 Linux. I'm trying to get in, and it's giving me a message that I had an unclean shut down. It drops me to a shell after I give it my root password. Then what? I'm just staring at a blinking screen, taunting me. I can't bypass this, and I can't get into my OS. I can't do anything.

What do I have to do to let me back into the system? May you please tell me the exact lines of text I have to put in? Remember, when I say newbie, I mean newbie. I'm not going to understand any jargon you toss at me, due to the fact I don't have any linux-related information tossed at me on a regular basis.

most likely you need to check your filesystem with fsck.
depending on where your / drive is at and whatever other partitions you may have your system using.. it will be a something like this :

fsck /dev/hda1

check out this link for the man pages on fsck. http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man0594.htm

hey ive had the same problem but the message told me that efsck2 would have to be used instead... i tried that same convention efsck2 /dev/hdaX but i got a bad command name... any idea why?

:D i had the same problem foollow the instructions on teh screen and use fdcis or whta ever it is and it should repair the system

what is fdcis?

what is fdcis?

fsck

oh lol... ok...

:D Just boot from a red hat 2.0 cd and upgrade to 2.0 it has ext3 file system it is journaling so fsck doesn't need to be used at all hopefully!!!

:D Just boot from a red hat 2.0 cd and upgrade to 2.0 it has ext3 file system it is journaling so fsck doesn't need to be used at all hopefully!!!

? 2.0??

Sorry 7.2 !! Need coffee!!!

When you run the installer it will ask if you want to upgrade to 7.2 then ask if you want to change the file system to ext3. Just say yes and upgrade.

hey is there a command similar to mke2fs for creating ext3 file systems on new partitions?

hey is there a command similar to mke2fs for creating ext3 file systems on new partitions?

No, to create an ext3 filesystem you just run "mke2fs -j" this will create
the filesystem with an ext3 journal. If the -J option is not specified, the default journal parameters will be used to create an appropriately sized journal (given the size of the filesystem)
stored within the filesystem. Note that you must be using a kernel which has ext3 support in order to actually make use of the journal.

Read the manpage for mke2fs. This option is probably not available if your running Redhat 7.1 or later , but I'm not sure about that. I do know that the option is available in the version of mke2fs on my 7.2 system.

Nope not that I know of. It'll probably be in a kernel upgrade though. If you have to format a new partition int ext3, though, I suppose you could boot from the 7.2 cd and run the installer till you get to the partition tool and partition it to ext3 that way, but I never tried. I will check to see if there is a ext3 tool out there.