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02-10-2002, 11:18 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1
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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.
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02-10-2002, 11:27 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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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
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02-13-2002, 02:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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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?
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02-13-2002, 09:31 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: london
Distribution: Redhat 7.1 windows Xp home
Posts: 9
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 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
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02-14-2002, 08:15 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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what is fdcis?
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02-14-2002, 08:15 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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what is fdcis?
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02-14-2002, 11:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: london
Distribution: Redhat 7.1 windows Xp home
Posts: 9
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fsck
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02-14-2002, 10:39 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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oh lol... ok...
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02-15-2002, 12:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: red hat 7.2
Posts: 20
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 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!!!
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02-15-2002, 12:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: red hat 7.2
Posts: 20
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 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!!!
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02-15-2002, 12:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: chicago, IL
Distribution: Gentoo 1.4_rc1
Posts: 913
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? 2.0??
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02-15-2002, 01:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: red hat 7.2
Posts: 20
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Sorry 7.2 !! Need coffee!!!
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02-15-2002, 01:54 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: red hat 7.2
Posts: 20
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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.
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02-15-2002, 04:30 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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hey is there a command similar to mke2fs for creating ext3 file systems on new partitions?
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02-15-2002, 04:30 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: High Falls, GA
Distribution: Mandrake8.2, FreeBSD, Solaris
Posts: 362
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hey is there a command similar to mke2fs for creating ext3 file systems on new partitions?
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