Re: Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-28 Thread rwhartung
Ben, Thanks! I was not aware the /var/log/dmesg contained more info and simply entering 'dmesg ' as the command line. I'll also check the man page on modprobe. I usually recompile my kernel to contain just those things I need and have avoided modules - but I guess it's time for me to learn

Re: forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
> "BobH" == BobH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BobH> Hi, I had a flat-panel monitor go out [dead as a doornail] and had to BobH> [? but I did anyway] hard powerdown the PC. Upon rebooting I'm BobH> getting a lot of errors but didn't respond quick enough to force BobH> filesystem check. I'm u

Re: Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-18 Thread Ben Logan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:36:22PM -0600, BobH wrote: > The machine is up and after a little reading I gather that I should not > even think of running fsck on ext3 partitions. So.. now that I can boot > the machine to a new monitor I am seeing for the first time a series of > module load errors

Re: forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-17 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * On 18-01-02 at 08:08 * BobH said > Hi, > I had a flat-panel monitor go out [dead as a doornail] and had to [? but > I did anyway] hard powerdown the PC. Upon rebooting I'm getting a lot of > errors but didn't respond quick enough to force

Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-17 Thread BobH
The machine is up and after a little reading I gather that I should not even think of running fsck on ext3 partitions. So.. now that I can boot the machine to a new monitor I am seeing for the first time a series of module load errors scroll past, but when I review with 'dmesg' there is no sign o

forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-17 Thread BobH
Hi, I had a flat-panel monitor go out [dead as a doornail] and had to [? but I did anyway] hard powerdown the PC. Upon rebooting I'm getting a lot of errors but didn't respond quick enough to force filesystem check. I'm using grub as my bootloader. How do I force fsck of the entire HD that is