My netbook won't work properly

[comfortador]

Hello

I have a "HP compaq 2133 mini-note pc" running suse linux. But the problem is that when I turn it on, it gives me a command prompt asking me to log in, when I do, the line goes blank and I can't get the linux to boot from there.

Here is what it says... (as much of it as i can see, at least)

/dev/sda2: recovering journal
/dev/sda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
/dev/sda2: Inode 293736 has illegal block(s).

/dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck.ext3 /dv/sda2 failed (status 0x4) Run Manually!
fsck failed. Mounting root device read-only
INIT: version 2.86 booting
System Boot Control: Running /etc/initd/boot
Mounting procfs at /proc
Mounting sysfs at /sys
Mounting debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug
Initializing /dev
Mounting devpts at dev/pts
Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console (console (deleted)) at Fri Sep
11 23:28:37 2009
System Boot Control: The system has been set up
System Boot Control: Running /etc/initd/boot.local
blogd: no message logging because /var file system is not accessible
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Fri Sep 11 23:28:37 2009
Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached

Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.16.54-
0.2.5-default (tty1).

(none) login:

[at this point, I type in my username and passoword and what looks like a command prompt shows up]

I have no ideas what to do, any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

PS: My friend said I shouldn't have typed all of that, but I think the more information out there, the better the chance of me getting some kind of help.

[waterhead]

The error tells you what you should do. After booting it looks as if it drops you to a shell. Login as root, then run the command that it asked you to do.

fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2

It may repeat the error, then ask if you want it cleared. Answer yes.

[comfortador]

Thanks for the advice, I see how it was telling me what to do.

but...

...when I type in

fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2

all I get is

-bash: fsck.ext3: command not found

which sort of leaves me back at square one.

[waterhead]

Try it without the ext3 extension.

fsck /dev/sda2

[gogalthorp]

You need to boot from the cd/dvd with a rescue or install disk. It looks like the root partition is the one that is bad. This could be a problem if this is a netbook and has no non-hard drive boot device. Is this machine still under warranty? Does it have a solid state drive?? This could be a hardware problem.

There does not appear to be anyone selling any version of Linux on a memory stick. (sales opportunity???)

Here is a link to instructions on how to set up a memory stick to boot just about any Linux you can think of. Any flavor should work to fix or trouble shoot further.

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick | USB Pen Drive Linux

[D-cat]

And further, it has to be run as root (which usually happens anyway when running a live CD/USB drive boot)

I'd do a thorough check...

fsck.ext3 -fcky /dev/sda2

This will take a while. Good luck.