Mandrake 6.0 Crash Crash Crash
Jenkins Jones
I start it up it says something about bad blocks and to type in the root
password, then exit to reboot. I did this, but it just does it over and
over again.
I've had the power go out with my Mac, with Be OS and never had a problem,
why does this hurt Linux so bad? The power in my neighborhood sucks, so it
does go out during thunder storms. Is there anything I can do with the
system so it won't be so messed up when this happens again?
How can I get everything back now that this has happened? Please help.
Rushuru
and yes, ext2fs sucks and linux will probably have a new filesystem soon
Jenkins Jones <realw...@nospam.yahoo.com.spamsucks> wrote in message
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"Jenkins Jones" <realw...@nospam.yahoo.com.spamsucks> wrote:
> The power went out at my apartment while I was using my computer.
> Now when I start it up it says something about bad blocks and to
> type in the root password, then exit to reboot. I did this, but
> it just does it over and over again.
>
> I've had the power go out with my Mac, with Be OS and never had a
> problem, why does this hurt Linux so bad? The power in my
> neighborhood sucks, so it does go out during thunder storms. Is
> there anything I can do with the system so it won't be so messed
> up when this happens again?
The system runs fsck every time you startup, but with too many
errors it won't fix it manually. When you drop into the single
user shell (i.e., after you've entered the root password) run
fsck on all partitions. For standard IDE sort of setup this
would likely be /dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, etc. See your /etc/fstab
if you can't remember them all.
Remember you can't write to the disk in this mode, so don't try
to edit any files or change the system configuration in any way.
After fsck cleans up the problems you can re-mount the drive in
read/write mode if necessary. Shouldn't be, but I mention it here
as I've had to do this before.
Lastly, buy a simple UPS for your system! A 300VA unit would be
sufficient if you don't plug in the monitor. Linux can be told
to shutdown the system cleanly in case of a power outage (the UPS
communicates with the machine via the serial port).
Hope this helps!
- Leo
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Brandon Warren
the damage. You may need to reinstall the system.
Go to the Mandrake web site and get some updates.
The update to solve your problem is Initscripts, although
the web site doesn't say anything about it fixing the problem
you've experienced!
One thing that the updated initscripts does is re-enable
/sbin/update (bdflush). This is the daemon that keeps your
files updated, rather than leting the changes just sit in
the buffers.
"Jenkins Jones" <realw...@nospam.yahoo.com.spamsucks> writes:
>The power went out at my apartment while I was using my computer. Now when
>I start it up it says something about bad blocks and to type in the root
>password, then exit to reboot. I did this, but it just does it over and
>over again.
>I've had the power go out with my Mac, with Be OS and never had a problem,
>why does this hurt Linux so bad? The power in my neighborhood sucks, so it
>does go out during thunder storms. Is there anything I can do with the
>system so it won't be so messed up when this happens again?
>How can I get everything back now that this has happened? Please help.