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
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