System keeps dropping into shell.

[Ong Ying Ying]

It didn't say that. Anyway, I've tried fsck using different hda number 
but it didn't work.

Instead, it said that fstab did not contain fsck passno field. (1st 
warning shown). I guess it then tried to fsck for me, stating
fsck.ext2/ :
Then it said "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a 
correct ext2 filesystem ... try running e2fsck with alternate superblock :
   e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
I've tried e2fsck like stated on screen with different hda. How many 
superblocks are there? I'll check the different hda starting blocks 
again but I doubt it will work. What if the filesystem is using ext3?

What error report? I know dmesg but it is in /var/log which is empty.

YYOng


Alfred Hovdestad wrote:

> It sounds like your system is detecting a file system error which the 
> boot-up check cannot repair.  It should say something like:
>
> fsck /dev/hda1
>
> where /dev/hda1 is where your / or /boot partition is mounted.  If you 
> type the command as shown when you drop down to the shell, you should 
> be able to repair the filesystem.  If you can post the error reported 
> from another computer, it should be easier to analyze your problem 
> (unless your hard drive died).
>
>    Alfred Hovdestad
>