On Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:33:02 AM UTC+1, SeeHeng Lee wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem with my flashed Alt-F DNS33 unit.
I recently had to remove power plug without a propse. shutdown. Since then, whenever I power up the DNS323, the status page show "Checking...x%". I could access telnet at this stage. After I left it running till near completion,
Why don't you wait until it finishes?
I cannot access the webpage or telnet anymore.
This issue returned?! Only after the unclean shutdown, or before that also?
I tried booting the DNS323 without the HardDisk, and there was no problem. Similarly, if I telnet into the DNS32 during the initial stage, I could kill the fsck process, and sometimes mounted the disk as RO.
After an unclean shutdown a 'fsck' has to be performed. Alt-F always performs a fsck at boot or disk insertion/detection; if the filesystems in the disk are clean, the fsck only takes a couple of seconds; if they are dirty, 'fsck' can take hours to complete; if there is some problem that fsck does not dare to automatically fix, the filesystems are mounted RO and manual intervention is needed.
Consult System->Utilities->Logs, System Log, and search for fsk and "manual intervention". If it appears in the logs, you have to ssh/telnet the box and perform a manual fsck, not supplying a '-p' option, and, optionally supplying a '-y' option, such as 'fsck -fy /dev/<your device here, such as sda2>'
Alt-F does not perform a fsck this way automatically as there is the possibility of data loss, that's why filesystems are mounted RO, so you might do a backup before performing the "force, yes (-fy)" fsck.
I also read the wiki, and tried some recovery steps you mentioned in other threads in this forum, all without success.
This has nothing to do with recovery.