Re: 9.0 freezing prob's

From: Glen A Stromquist (glen_stromquist_at_no_spam_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:08:58 GMT

anc wrote:

> Glen A Stromquist wrote:
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>>thanks for the advice, but I could not get it to do anything, so I did a
>>hard reboot and am now at a "fsck failed" prompt, and not quite sure
>>where to go from there! Any help with this problem would be much
>>appreciated! I've tried fsck -y <device> and plain fsck -y to no avail,
>>guess I'll keep slogging thru google until I find something, unless
>>someone can help me out here!
>>
>>thanks again
>>
>>GS
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> Which file system have you used for root? The only time I have ever lost
> data was when I used ext2 and that was my fault. Since then I have used
> Reiser FS, never lost data, never had a lockup in linux, though my X server
> has froze once or twice.
> Have you tried to access your system from a boot floppy or from the suse
> rescue cd ?

I have / on rieserfs, the rest on ext3 I think, I havent tried the
rescue cd as of yet, I may yet but I was hoping to get some hands on exp
and fix it manually like it says, but I havent found out how yet.

thanks

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