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/dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors
Name: Bill Date: April 25, 2000 at 07:07:14 Pacific
Comment:
Need some help on this one. I have a old 486 with Redhat 6.0 on it. It was working fine until one day I heard the hard drive continually grinding away and the system slowed to a crawl. I tried to reboot the system and now I am getting this message on the boot up of the system. It starts to load linux in the beginning of boot up but then displays this message: "checking root file system. /dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors. check forced." It won't go any further than that on boot up. I am mostly an advanced win98 user, and new at linux. So any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanx in advance. Bill
Name: Quantux Date: April 25, 2000 at 14:36:43 Pacific
Reply:
The disk checking program at boot can take forever. Especially if you have a larger drive. But if it's freezing (hit numlock and the light dosen't go on or off)Then I would just try the old windows remedy. Re-Install.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bill Date: April 25, 2000 at 18:58:43 Pacific
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How would I reinstall at this point since I can't get back into linux??
simple, just boot your machine using a bootable linux installation CD ... then once 'booted', reinstall your linux by choosing 'INSTALL' instead of 'UPGRADE'.
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