-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] need help
>On Mon, 22 Nov 1999,hugahog wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 10:00 AM
> | Subject: Re: [newbie] need help
> |
> |
> | >On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> | >> Hi Gurus,
> | >>
> | >> I have been running LM 6.1 on my ide drive c (hdc) and have it
> | >> somewhat configured enought to get online, print, etc.
> | >>
> | >> Today I installed another copy on a clean drive which is hdb. It
> | >> boots OK but I don't have it configured as yet.
> | >>
> | >> My problem is now my original (hdc) won't boot, drops me to a
> | >> shell for maintenance :-(
> | >>
> | >So, what happens when you fsck the drive/partitions? Does
> | >that fix it or does it continue to drop you to a shell for
> | >maintenance?
> | > John
> | >
> |
> | John,
> | When I fsck the partitions they all check clean except if I
> | fsck /swap or / . When I check / a warning note comes
> | up saying If I fsck a mounted file system serious damage
> | could occur so I backed out.
> | Thanks
> | Larry
>
>When you are dropped to the shell, do
>
> fsck -t ext2 hdc# (where # = the partition number you want to check).
>
>This way you are telling fsck which partition to check. If you use / or
/swap,
>you may be trying to check a partition on the hdb drive which may be
mounted in
>read - write mode. For better information you can do man fsck while in the
>maintenance shell. Don't know if this will help, but it looks right to me.
>
>--
>Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>The measure of a man is in his honor ...
>
Ernie,
Thanks for that info. I ended up fdisking and recreating the swap
files on both hard drives but that did no good. As you may recall
when booting hdc it stalled because it didn't like the swap partition
on hdb (which was booting fine). So I ended up wiping hdb clean
and reinstalling, since it was just installed there was no loss.
This solved the problem, whatever the problem really was :-)
Both drives are booting fine.
Larry
