Re: Won't boot!

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Alan DeJong wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I have a bit of a problem.  During the storm today, my power went out, and
> my linux computer turned off.  As far as i can tell, all the hardware is
> fine.  But when it starts up it says [Failed]  when it checks the hard
> drive for errors.  I am running redhat 7.0 btw.  It will let me go into
> repair filesystem mode or whatever, but i am lost from there.  Any pointers
> so i can get it to boot up again?

The "easy" answer:
   fdisk -y /dev/hdXY

Where "/dev/hdXY" is the device that needs to be repaired.  The "-y"
option will force it to answer "yes" to fixing anything.

Linux/UNIX is very "conservative" when it comes to fixing things. 
If it detects _any_ "issue" that cannot be resolved 100% perfect, it
forces you to manually tell it to do it.  It's not like 9x/ME's
ScanDisk or NT/2000's ChkDsk which are "overly aggressive" IMHO. 
;-PPP

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