Re: My linux is ruined!

2000-02-23 Thread Anthony Green
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:20:46PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I did a bad configuration in a program, and it completely locked up my > computer. I was forced to reboot, and now after fsck checks my hard drive, > I get the error: > > fsck failed. Please repair manually an

Re: My linux is ruined!

2000-02-23 Thread aphro
enter the root password, then at the prompt type: e2fsck /dev/ where XXX is the name of the device that has the root filesystem. you may wanna run a e2fsck -c /dev/ as well to check for bad blocks. if its an IBm or maxtor i would get the drive diagnostics software off their site as the

My linux is ruined!

2000-02-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey everyone, I did a bad configuration in a program, and it completely locked up my computer. I was forced to reboot, and now after fsck checks my hard drive, I get the error: fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only.