file system with errors

[John O'Loughlin]

If you have the rhel cds then put the first one in, reboot, and at the 
prompt type:

linux rescue

eventually you will get to a shell where you:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

and then vi /etc/fstab

John



On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Buehler wrote:

> How can I hash out the line if I can't boot past the error?  After several 
> reboots (and after my original email), I was finally able to have it ask me 
> for a password or to hit Control-D to continue.  Problem is that once this 
> comes up, my keyboard is locked up and I can't type anything.  During the 
> bootup I can pick the kernel and so on.
>
> Steve
>
> At 08:46 AM 2/7/2007, John O'Loughlin wrote:
>
>> hash out the line in /etc/fstab that is mounting that partition on 
>> /var/spool/mail
>> 
>> 
>> then you can log and in and fsck -p it
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Buehler wrote:
>> 
>>> RedHat 4.x system.
>>> I am trying to boot a linux system that has 4 HD's.  3 of them are on in a 
>>> raid 5 configuration and the other one is the boot drive with the OS on 
>>> it. When I boot the system, I get the message
>>> /var/spool/mail contains a file system with errors, check forced.
>>> The file system in question is the raid and is 500GB in size.  I let it 
>>> run for several days at boot up but it never came out of the file system 
>>> check and the hard drive lights stop blinking after only about an hour, 
>>> give or take.  How can I tell it at boot time to NOT do a file system 
>>> check like this so that I can get into the system and either run it 
>>> manually or format the partition again.
>>> Suggestions?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Steve
>>> 
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