Sherpa Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Mandy 10 oe i get this error at start up: checking file system /hda7 is ok then this: e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsk! fsck.ext3 do you want to check file system (Y,N) you may lose some info **I put Y then it says droping into shell to repair file system or press control-d for normal startup ctrl-d restarts the computer when i press y to go into shell, then it is like a bash prompt, i dont know what command i am supposed to do, i am kinda lost... but now all of my other distros are now not working also.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 i have now figured out by running: e2fsck -p /dev/hda5 e2fsck -p /dev/hda7 e2fsck -p /dev/hda3 at the command line that all of my mandy 10 partitions(the ones i tested above) are ok the one where i have problems is e2fsck -p /dev/hda1 e2fsck -p /dev/hda2 which are my FC3 partitions that i just installed.... when i run those commands i get the problems and it tells me to get a newer version of e2fsck i am going to try to run an interactive startup and try to bypass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 If the network is up and running, you can update e2fsck via urpmi. i forget the exact commands, though :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 no this is bad, the darnd thing doesnt even get to the point where i can do an interactive setup this happens when it is checking the filesystems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 should i get a cd version of linux and go into the mandy / partition and edit the fstab file to disclude hda1 and hda2 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac57 Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Exactly. I would recommend that you get Knoppix (the latest is 3.7) or the excellent little xfld (the latest is 0.2) and use it to remove the offending drives from /etc/fstab. I had a similar problem and resolved it that way. You MAY also be able to resolve it by adding the keyword "noauto" to the list of keywords in the fstab entry (the stuff right after the file system type). This should stop MDK from trying to auto mount the drive on start up. This SEEMS to work with MDK, but I have seen it not work with other distros, such as SuSE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 worked great, everything is fine now.... i just had a copy of mandy move lying around.... vola!!! Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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