[CoLoCo] help!! fsck problem

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Wouldn't you just use fsck -fy?

Jim Hutchinson 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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