Problems at boot

[Dpontes11]

Hi everyone!

I use SuSE 10.0 and yesterday when I tried to boot the system, after a few lines, it appeared this message:

fsck failed for at least one file system (not /).
Please repair manually and reboot.
The root file system is already mounted read-write.
Attention: Only CONTROL-D will rebbot the system in this maintanance mode. Shutdown or reboot will not work

After this it asks me for my login and shows the shell.

So... what happened?! Can anyone help me with this? I need this OS to finish a college project close to the deadline.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

[gogalthorp]

Hi everyone!

I use SuSE 10.0 and yesterday when I tried to boot the system, after a few lines, it appeared this message:

fsck failed for at least one file system (not /).
Please repair manually and reboot.
The root file system is already mounted read-write.
Attention: Only CONTROL-D will rebbot the system in this maintanance mode. Shutdown or reboot will not work

After this it asks me for my login and shows the shell.

So... what happened?! Can anyone help me with this? I need this OS to finish a college project close to the deadline.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

You have a partition that is corrupted or otherwise not right. What partitions do you have???

[Dpontes11]

I saw on another forum to do this:

-do login;
-do PgUp;
-see what partition is corrupted;
-uncomment it on /etc/fstab;

the thing is:

the PgUp (Shift+Up) doesn't work, it just shows in the sheel the last commands I made; plus, I don't know how to edit the /etc/fstab in order to uncomment that partition.

What do you suggest?

[rong]

the PgUp (Shift+Up) doesn't work,

That should be Shift+PageUP instead.

I don't know how to edit the /etc/fstab in order to uncomment that partition.
What do you suggest?

Go to the command line (CTRL-Alt-F2), login as root, and with any editor you like (perhaps nano if you are not familiar with others yet since it is very easy to use) then look for the line re: the problem partition and delete the # in front of it.

BUT before you do that make a copy of the fstab file in case you mess it up.
cp fstab fstab.save.

[Dpontes11]

I messed it up...

I opened with emacs, and ADDED the # in front of the partition (hda8 aka Home). Wasn't it supposed to be #'s in front of all the partition descriptions?

Anyway, I rebooted, and... nothing. I get a black screen in the middle of the start-up...

I did the

cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.save

What can I do to recover from this?

[rong]

Boot up your install disk and see if the Repair option fixes the problem.