go into a shell, and fsck all of your disks.
fsck /dev/hdx
for each drive, then reboot.. (easiest way to get back up..) happens to all
of us now and then. I run a sync every 60 seconds on my systems here at home
that have software raid enabled, it helps a lot.
Andrew
On Sunday 16 September 2001 05:15 pm, you wrote:
> HELP!
>
> This morning Netscape running under KDE in RH 7.1 completely froze my
> system.
>
> Since the system was frozen and I could not use the keyboard or the
> mouse I turned off the power.
>
> Big Mistake.
>
> Now the system refuses to boot past /home or /var.
>
> Error message is that /home and /var contain a file system with errors,
> check forced.
>
> for /home Unattached inode 256589
> UNEXPECTED INCONSTANCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> for /var An error occurred during the file system check.
> Dropping you to a shell;
>
> HELP! Please advise how to proceed before I mess something else up.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
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