RUN FSCK MANUALLY

[Harry L. Lee]

boot from a rescue cd, then at the command prompt:
fsck /dev/sda1

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:44 PM, PANAYIOTIS TIMVEOS<timveos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> Can someone help?
>
> I am a new user of UBUNTU
>
> Please word your assistance in plain English.  I do not know UNIX at all.
>
> I am having a problem in opening the operating system on my lap top.
>
> It says:
>
> 'unclean shutdown checking drivers
>
> /dev sda 1
>
> it then shows the count down:
>
> Stage1/5  ???/574
>
> It stops at:
>
> 44% Stage 1/5     363/574  - Fail
>
> and says
>
> Automatic file system check (fsck) of the roof file system failed
>
> A manual fsck must be performed then the systyem restarted
>
> Fcsk died with exit status 4
>
> Run fsck manually
>
>
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