[CoLoCo] help!! fsck problem

[David Overcash]

There's a good chance your kid's hard drive has a physical problem if it's
asking you to run fsck so soon after reinstalling.  That's sort of the
default suggestion that Linux gives if it can't read something on your hard
drive correctly.  At least, that's what happened to me last time I got a
random fsck a week after a fresh install.

-David

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
wrote:

> 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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