Re: White Dwarf Linux Booting Problem

From: Vividh Siddha (vividh_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:54:42 -0700

Sumeet,

You need to go through this document before posting questions questions
like this:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

/V

sumeet.pawnikar@gmail.com wrote:
> Tim Keck wrote:
>
>>sumeet.pawnikar@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am Sumeet, working on a PC104 plus board.
>>>I had a working White Dwarf 2.2.0 installed on SBC.
>>>But, now it hangs when booting, and it shows below error :
>>>
>>>" dev/hda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY "
>>>" fsck returned error code - REBOOT NOW ! "
>>>
>>>It means try "fsck manually" cause of error on the hda.
>>>But I can not login to start the fsck manually.
>>>
>>>The FAQ on the www.blast.com sites describes to use "ALT F2 or F3"
>>>to get to another console, but this is not working, I do not get
>>>another console!
>>>
>>>Before, I tried to boot I always checked the time and date in the bios.
>>>
>>>
>>>Is somebody having an idea, how can I overcome this ?
>>>Pls, reply as soon as possible.
>>>
>>>Thanks & Regards,
>>>Sumeet
>>>
>>
>>Boot into single user mode and run fsck manually.
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> How to boot into single user mode ?
> Pls, reply........
>
> Thanks,
> Sumeet
>

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