On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:08:48 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ,, > > I mentioned this last night, but noone really knew so I am asking again in > the hope that someone can give me a tip here... > > > I have a mandrake 7.2 system, and when I rebooted it last night, all sorts > of things went wrong... > > First, GDM stopped workin, and I had to use failsafe to kill that at boot > (along with all the other non essential servers...) > > > Now, if I boot to any kernel, I either get blank screen, or i get the > default linux console screen, with the penguin, and it asks for my login, > which if I type it just goes to the next line and doesn't prompt for a > password... > > > I have alot of html and perl work on this machine that I hadn't yet backed > up, so its imperrative that I get this distro, functional,,, > > I am of the feelin that its been some sort of File system corruption (all > partitions are reiser except /boot) > > but from looking at the failsafe logs, there isn't much wrong with > anything.. > > how I go about using the rescue disk to mount the hard drive and/or possibly > to fsck it??? > > > what is the command for fsck for reiserfs?? man reiserfsck I don't think it's a FS problem, but give that a shot before you try anything else. > does anyone have any ideas?? also, why do I get the blank screen at > login... (or a prompt that doesnt' ask for you passwd???) > > > rgds > > Frank -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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