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Problem Booting Mint
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:15 pm
by lawlernet
I am currently having difficulties booting Linux Mint 6. Before the problem began, I had my computer in suspend mode, and when it came out hibernation the internet was not working (although it said I was connected to the wifi network). Since I was having difficulties with the internet, I had decided to reboot because it had happened before and that always fixed it. However, when I started up it said that the reboot was not a clean restart, and I had to restart again, and it brought up an error that said I must run fdisk in order to fix the problem, but it prompts for a root password. I do not have the root password enabled, so I cannot run fdisk. Does anyone have any suggestions, would be much appreciated, thank you.
Re: Problem Booting Mint
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:36 pm
by grimdestripador
Might want to wait on more answers to agee; but I'll give you my thoughts
Q/A IMPORTANT QUESTION 1
If your computer comes out of suspend mode correctly, but still lacks networking this is probably due to your IP being released from the DHCP tables on your DHCP server. Correct this by renewing your IP. Easily accomplished by clicking on the icon representing networking (eth0 if Ethernet) or by typing into your terminal
In terminal one can also check ip by typing
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Q/A IMPORTANT QUESTION 2
I believe that it says run chkdsk (checkdisk) not fdisk
It seems like it wants your root password to do a repair files; ie lost harddsik sectors.
I believe this can be fised
Re: Problem Booting Mint
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:45 pm
by lawlernet
Thanks for question 1, I'll keep it in mind next time.
Regarding question 2: It mentions specifically fdisk, and on top of that, I do NOT have the root password enabled, so what do I do at this point? Is it possible to fix this via the Live CD? Can you give me instructions, please?
Thanks.
Re: Problem Booting Mint
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:19 pm
by grimdestripador
Yes exactally Boot from any mint live cd and use sudo to first run chkdsk then fdisk. I believe something like:
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user@QuadXDamage ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
sudo password for user:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4863 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4864 7295 19535040 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 7296 14593 58621185 7 HPFS/NTFS
then use man fsck.ext3 to find the command for force check verbose mode (you could add option y for auto yes)