On 27-Aug-99 Jeanette Russo wrote:
> I am still trying to repair my Mandrake 5.3 system. I still get the
> message at boot up that
> "an error occured during the file system check dropping you to shell system
> will reboot when you leave the shell, give root password for maint"
> I have run e2fsck every which way and it shows no errors. I can mount hda5
> manually and startx and everything works normally but no sound, and why I
> try to use the modem it tells me I have no PPP support. Well it did
> yesterday before the crash. And when I reboot I am right back where I
> started. Dmesg | less shows no errors but why is the thing booting into ro
> mode. etc/fstab looks fine same as before. Can someone from Mandrake soft
> please help?
> I am out of ideas.
> On the other hand I have redhat 6 sitting here and I have been wanting to
> try gnome.
> Jeanette
I'm no expert but I did some snooping and the message you're getting is
generated in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
The script check for the existence of the files:
/fsckoptions extra options to run fsck with
/forcefsck appends the -f option to the above list
/fastboot if this file does not exist then run fsck
You're message is generated if fsck's return value is 2 or greater. The fsck
man page states rc=2 mean a reboot is necessary, higher values mean more
serious problems.
I think /fastboot might be created by the shutdown or halt binaries. There's
also a flag in the ext2 superblock which is used to test if a partition has
been unmounted properly.
Are you running fsck from a floppy? fsck should only be run on unmounted
filesystems.
hope this helps
scott
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Date: 27-Aug-99
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