I can't use Slackware any more !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 09:43 AM

When i start my computer after it loads everything it starts checking my hard disk for errors. On 93% stops and says that there is at error and restarts. Every time i start my computer it does it and i can't use my computer now. Please help!!! Any ideas how to fix it??? Very urgent. need help!!!

Unr3a164 · 11-16-2007, 09:47 AM

when it stops, do you get a message saying that you have to login as root and run a few commands to fix the issue? Or does it just automatically reboot the machine once it reaches the 93%?

juergen · 11-16-2007, 02:18 PM

LiveCD's are the answer to everything.
In this case, boot from one of them and run a fsck on the partition in question by hand.

Good luck!

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 02:37 PM

Yes it says to run something like fsck -v p <partition> it restarts too quickly to read it. And how do you boot from live cd and what commands to use???
Thank you for the responces

juergen · 11-16-2007, 02:52 PM

To run a live cd, you download the ISO image and burn it to a CD. RIP (Recovery Is Possible) should work for you. Once you have it on CD, you just insert it into the afflicted machine, make sure that the BIOS knows to boot from CD and turn it on.
Once you are in the Linux environment from that CD, a plain old 'fsck <partition>' should be a good starting point.

kav · 11-16-2007, 02:57 PM

Do a fdisk -l to list your partitions

Code:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000800bd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1           6       48163+  83  Linux

If this was your system you would then type

Code:

# fsck /dev/sda1

BCarey · 11-16-2007, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juergen

To run a live cd, you download the ISO image and burn it to a CD. RIP (Recovery Is Possible) should work for you. Once you have it on CD, you just insert it into the afflicted machine, make sure that the BIOS knows to boot from CD and turn it on.
Once you are in the Linux environment from that CD, a plain old 'fsck <partition>' should be a good starting point.

As has been mentioned many times on this forum, you don't need a "Live CD" because you can boot with your Slackware Install cd.

Brian

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 04:10 PM

Thanks for all the help!!! The problem is solved

BCarey · 11-16-2007, 04:18 PM

I'm glad you have a solution to your problem, but it would be good if you posted your resolution. Did you do what kav said? Please contribute to the forum by saying how it was solved.

Brian

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 04:23 PM

I just followed the advice given above using the CD to go in Linux environment and use fsck

onebuck · 11-16-2007, 05:26 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by BULPulse

I just followed the advice given above using the CD to go in Linux environment and use fdisk

I think you meant 'fsck'. Do a 'man fsck' to understand the command.

Code:

excrpt from 'man fsck'

NAME
       fsck - check and repair a Linux file system

SYNOPSIS
       fsck [ -sAVRTNP ] [ -C [ fd ] ] [ -t fstype ] [filesys ... ] [--] [ fs-
       specific-options ]

DESCRIPTION
       fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file sys-
       tems.   filesys  can  be  a device name (e.g.  /dev/hdc1, /dev/sdb2), a
       mount point (e.g.  /, /usr, /home), or an ext2 label or UUID  specifier
       (e.g.   UUID=8868abf6-88c5-4a83-98b8-bfc24057f7bd or LABEL=root).  Nor-
       mally, the fsck program will try to  handle  filesystems  on  different
       physical  disk  drives  in  parallel to reduce the total amount of time
       needed to check all of the filesystems.

       If no filesystems are specified on the command line, and the -A  option
       is  not  specified,  fsck  will  default  to  checking  filesystems  in
       /etc/fstab serially.  This is equivalent to the -As options.

       The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following conditions:

            0    - No errors
            1    - File system errors corrected
            2    - System should be rebooted
            4    - File system errors left uncorrected
            8    - Operational error
            16   - Usage or syntax error
            32   - Fsck canceled by user request
            128  - Shared library error
       The exit code returned when multiple file systems are  checked  is  the
       bit-wise OR of the exit codes for each file system that is checked.

       In  actuality,  fsck  is simply a front-end for the various file system
       checkers (fsck.fstype) available under Linux.  The file system-specific
       checker  is  searched for in /sbin first, then in /etc/fs and /etc, and
       finally in the directories listed in  the  PATH  environment  variable.
       Please  see  the  file system-specific checker manual pages for further
       details.

You should check the options!

edit: You could have used the single option to boot. Then you would be allowed to perform the maintenance. As stated if you need a boot cd, use the Slackware 12 install cd1 instead of a livecd.

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 05:27 PM

Thanks for the info