Re: [SLE] Can't Boot Laptop with 9.3

From: Dom Incollingo (DomIncollingo_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 04/30/05

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:01:34 -0500
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    Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

    >On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dom Incollingo wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Hello,
    >>
    >>I installed 9.3 on an HP ZD7000 laptop about a week ago. (I previously had 9.2
    >>on the laptop for about 2 months with no problems.) Apart from several
    >>annoying problems with Gnome, 9.3 seemed to be working fine. This morning I
    >>tried to reboot the laptop. But the laptop will not boot. It gets midway
    >>through the boot process and it shuts itself off. I've tried booting the
    >>laptop 5 times, but the same thing happened each time. Before the boot process
    >>stops, I notice messages indicating that the "filesystem is not clean".
    >>
    >>How can I diagnose/correct this problem? Is there a way to determine if this
    >>if my system got corrupted or if this is a hardware failure? If the system is
    >>corrupted, can I fix it without re-installing?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >One possible approach is to select the "Failsafe" mode on the initial boot
    >prompt. As I recall, this brings the system up in a "single-user" mode
    >and runs fsck on the disk subsystem.
    >
    >A second approach is to boot from DVD 1 and select the "Installation" mode
    >at the initial boot prompt. Just take the default action on each of the
    >screens displayed until you get to the one where it prompts you to select
    >what you want to do. Select repair. This will, also, run fsck to repair
    >the file system. Then it will go through all of the installed packages
    >and re-install any corrupted packages.
    >
    >Merton Campbell Crockett
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Thanks very much for the suggestions. I've run fsck, and that doesn't
    seem to have completely solved the problem. So I'll try the second
    approach. 

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