Hi Bret, Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I overestimated the RAID's capabilities at preventing this sort of thing.
Because now both hard drives are corrupt when I boot. Is there anything else a person can do? Where can I find a list of commands to run in this fs check prompt mode? Trev. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bret Hughes > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How to configure private IP addresses? > > > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:36, Trevor wrote: > > When a system doesn't boot, what commands are useful to boot it back up? > > I'm thinking fsck, etc. > > > > It is a RH7 box (ext2). The system loads the kernel, then when > it tries to > > mount the drives it goes into a system check. The system check > can't fix > > the inode/bad blocks on the HDD. Regardless of what drive I > boot, the same > > thing happens. > > > > So it dumps me into the manual mode and tells me to run fsck on > the drives. > > Can anyone give me some basic troubleshooting tips to see if I > can get the > > box to boot? It just drops me at the repair-fs prompt. > > look at the message that says which partition is having problems > probably /dev/hdax where x is the partition number. At the prompt you > are dumped to (single user mode BTW) type fsck /dev/hdax (x is the > partition identified above) > > THen anser all the questions it asks you. I always say yes so I started > using the command > fsck -y /dev/hdax > it will automatically anwer all questions with a yes. THen hope that > there is nothing corrupted that matters. If something is really bad > after the fsck you are looking at restoring the box. You do have > backups, right? > > Bret > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
