On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, > I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message: > > /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > > And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem > is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot > into my system. > > I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I > wonder - if there's some other solution > - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?
try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" to the end of the kernel line. Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are connected or wired up -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
