[CoLoCo] help!! fsck problem

[Jim Hutchinson]

My kids computer started to fail on boot giving an fsck error and saying to
run fsck manually. However, I could never get a command prompt so I decided
to just reinstall and put hardy on as I was anxious to use it anyway. It was
working fine but now it's giving the fsck error again. It said it was going
to open a maintenance shell but didn't. Ctrl-d exited and it finished
booting but nothing worked. I had a desktop but apps would open and be
blank. Nothing worked so I rebooted to try again and now it starts to run
fsck, stops and reboots - repeatedly.

I'm guessing I need to boot a live cd to fix it. What I don't know is what I
need to do. Do is just run something like

sudo fsck /dev/sda1

Or do I need to use options? The error message did say to run without with
-a or -e or something like that.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
-jim

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