debian going in to maintenance mode?

[Andor Demarteau]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Mario Lang wrote:

 > It looks as if you have a corrupted filesystem which can not be repaired
 > automatically anymore.  Entering the root password, executing fsck /dev/hdXn
 > (i.e., the device which fails), and answering "y" to the questions you're
 > asked should make it behave again.   You might loose some files which
 > are unrecoverable, but often this is not very tragic.
 > If fsck did its job, you can hit Ctrl-d again (or enter "reboot") and it
 > *should* come up in multi-user mode again.
without further details I agree with this assesment, this wuld be the only
reason it does ebhave like this AFAIK

 > "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net> writes:
 >
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 > > hello my linux computer debian sarge had an in propper shut down and
 > > now when ever I boot up the machine it loads gives me the message
 > > type in root password to go in to maintenance mode or control d to go
 > > to normal setup.
 > > I tried control d and it rebooted the system and braught up the same
 > > message as before.
 > > how do I get my system back up and running?
 > > thanks
 > > hank
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