I just caught your message, I myself am a newbie so I will probably need to help you step by step, I might be a tad slow, but I will try my best On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Phil Cziao mewed: > > my apologies to all who have to read this again, but i posted this and > haven't received a response. i don't know whether this is because my > mail server snafu'd or what, but i'm reposting it because i REALLY need > help with this. > > as additional info, i'll add that my filesystem's ext2, i have mandrake > 6.1, bash works fine when i get to the maintenance shell, dmesg shows > that all my IDE dev's were recognized and running the install cds again > with the 'update' option does not help. i'm worried that choosing > 'install' will overwrite my previous config. (something i do not want to > happen at any cost.) > > will someone be a pal and lend a hand? > :) > > > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com >[216.71.84.35]) > by pop.snet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-pop-1.3/D-1.5.1.2/O-1.5) with ESMTP id >AAA12395 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:55:33 -0500 (EST) > Received: (from sympa@localhost) > by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29719 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:45:39 -0600 > Received: from smtp.snet.net (smtp.snet.net [204.60.6.55]) by > mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27933 for > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:34:51 -0600 > Received: from snet.net (hrfr-sh2-port221.snet.net [204.60.8.221]) by > smtp.snet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-bmx-1.3/D-1.7/O-1.6) with ESMTP id > AAA13074 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:44:40 -0500 > (EST) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:35:14 -0500 > From: Funboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) > X-Accept-Language: en,pl,de-DE,fr-FR,cs > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Sequence: 345 > Precedence: list > Subject: [newbie] fsck prob > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > hello. > > big problem. > i had to disconnect my system components for maintenance and when i > reconnected them (with a new cpu), everything went haywire on the > bootup. since then, i managed to get to the "unmounting old kernel" > bit. > then, it says that my linux partition (hda3) was not cleanly unmounted > last time, check forced. fsck goes to work, then exits at a consistent > 4.6% with error code 11. > i then have the option to go in for maintenance, but my filesystem's now > read-only, so i can't do a thing. please let me know what fsck is > finding wrong and/or how to mount the filesystem to read-write. > i can't change any config files without that, and i have a new cpu and > mainboard on, so a recompile is in order. > also, fyi, i replaced an isa sound card with a pci sound card and > removed a hard drive (slave, not master) > help, please... > must run. > my windows went nutty too and i only have a limited time left before it > magically reboots itself. > > ~phil > > -- Linux Cat
