On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:20, Tobias Weisserth wrote: > I do not know what happened to the system. I can only guess. The > users told me that the machine did not show the usual GDM login > screen but some "ugly other login screen" which they couldn't > operate. I guess they were talking about the XFree standard login > screen. They then rebooted the system and it stuck like described > above. My guess is that maybe the machine has lost power due a > electricity problem. But how can this mess up a system that runs on a > journaled filesystem? I hope I can rule out hardware failures since > the machine is a brand new Dell system. First of all, ensure that the system bios is detecting the drives correctly. Second of all, when you get to the rescue, use: fdisk -l to get a list of the drives/partitions. Then you can use fsck on those drives. The syntax is: fsck /dev/hda3 or to auto-answer yes to all repair questions: fsck -y /dev/hda3 -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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