FC6 boot issue - please help

[Parth Pathak]

Hi all,

I have been using FC6 for almost 6 months without any problems till today. I upgraded several available packages through package manager alert and upon reboot I could not get the system up and running again. 

it gave me an error regarding file systems like - 
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
...
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):

I tried doing fsck -A -y and tried rebooting it but it still ends up with the same error again and again. 

I have FC6 rescue disk but I really dont understand how to use it. 
after googling I figured out that once the filesystem is mounted at /mnt/syslinux, I should modify the /etc/fstab file entries. 

I really dont understand what to modify, /etc/fstab looks like - 
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/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00            /                ext3         defaults                        1    1    
LABEL=/boot                                           /boot          ext3            defaults                        1    2           
devpts                                                          /dev/pts      devpts        gid=5,mode=620            0     0
tmpfs                                                            /dev/shm      tmpfs         defaults                                0     0
proc                                                            /proc              proc           defaults                              0    0
sysfs                                                             /sys                sysfs          defaults                                0    0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01           swap           swap       defaults                        0    0
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this all is really gibberish for a newbie like me. please help me to recover the system as I have much of important data on the drive. 
I have one 80 GB harddrive with no partition on it. there is no dual boot or anything else and it just has FC6. 

it looks like its a fairly common problem and please please help me to recover from this..

anticipating ur help,

thanks
parth




       
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