As Jeremy stated, we would need some more information. If the system is asking you to enter maintenance mode and run fsck (whether for ext2/ext3 or reiserfs), go ahead and try that first. If the file system(s) that is/are damaged is _not_ your root file system, you could try removing them from /etc/fstab (make a backup first) and then rebooting. Once you're up, you could run the fsck, then mount them to see if you lost anything. (Although if you did, you'll get that clue during the fsck itself. Lots of ugly messages, etc.)
Also, what file system were you using? If the system really was dormant, and you were using a journaled file system, I would not have expected this problem to happen. It should have be able to replay the journal and come right back up. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:37 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Linux in an LPAR - recovery? My Linux LPAR was dormant for a couple of weeks at least, no one logging on (since I'm the only user and I had other things to do). The guy who does our IODF needed to make changes to make my Linux disks visible to the z/OS LPAR (offline, but we'll need to see them to move them with FDRPAS later this month). Somewhere in there (I didn't do it) someone did 'Deactivate' of the Linux LPAR from the HMC and now when I try to load it, I get messages about my filesystems having problems and it doesn't come up normally.. Is this one of those situations where I will need to use the install CD as a 'recovery system'? I could just install SLES10 from scratch (this was SLES9) but I had such a "fun time" using my z/OS system FTP server as the source for the install I thought it would be nice to use the z/Linux system this time.. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
