Run fsck from the boot prompt

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:52:13PM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> is there a way to run a fsck from the boot prompt?  I have a machine here  
> that is pretty well FUBAR, I can't even get it to a CLI to run fsck.  Any  
> ideas?

Can the kernel mount the root filesystem?

Try booting with init=/bin/bash and then run /sbin/e2fsck manually.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha