On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks very much! No need to thank me, I might not have said anything useful ;-) > No, I can try this. I guess this would be in safe mode. Yes, "safe mode" or "single user mode" as we call it in *nix world ;-) At the grub prompt (press esc until it comes up) edit your Fedora line and add "single" to the kernel line. If you've already booted, you might like to edit your grub config (/boot/grub/menu.lst) and set the timeout to something other than zero, perhaps timeout=5. In single user mode you should be able to do a file system check on your partitions. If you don't know what they are, run the df command before you reboot to see where / is mounted (or grab it from the kernel line in grub's menu.lst). Something like: fsck /dev/disk/by-uuid/8828eacb-11b9-45b8-8558-d2f945c337f6 As for S.M.A.R.T, you can use palimpsest (gnome disk utility) or the smart command line utility (yum install smartmontools). It might be helpful to check whether the BIOS has S.M.A.R.T turned on. > > What are these magic keys? They're magical ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key -c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
