I've had the automatic fsck fail on me before, and my distro would get into an infinite cycle of rebooting, so I'd wind up specifying something like "init=/bin/sh" as a parameter to the kernel and manually running /sbin/e2fsck (this is back when I was running ext2 -- Luke is right in that having a journaling fs helps) and hitting y a few times when it stopped until I could determine that it was done (if I hit backspace and get a beep, then I can tell I'm at a prompt of some kind). In retrospect I probably should have either used my PC Weasel or tried to get a serial console working, but sometimes e2fsck needs to be run manually for whatever reason. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list