Thanks to all who answered, but the drive was pretty much shot. Getting a new harddrive tonight and going to reinstall.
Thanks again Scotty > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 1:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: help with boot failure > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Scott wrote: > > > We had a power outage and now my server doesn't boot properly. I > > was able to boot from a bootdisk and issued init=/bin/sh. Now I'm at > > a prompt but I am at a loss as to what to do next so that I can fsck > > my partitions. I looked thru hundreds of links, but just couldn't > > find the right one to help me get my server back up and running. > > Could some please tell me what to do or send me the link that tells > > me what to do. This is a production machine and the clients are > > screaming off the wall. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Scott > > > If it is an IDE machine: > > fdisk -l /dev/hda - Get a list of partitions > e2fsck -fp <patition> - Check each Linux partition > > If you have more then one drive, check the other drives as well. > If you can not boot off the hard drive, you should run lilo to fix the > MBR. Depending on how bad things are, you may have to run e2fsck > without the -p option and manualy fix some things. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
