From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 14:08:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E8216A4CF for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 14:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFEF43D4C for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 14:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6551069A7C; Sat, 1 May 2004 17:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40941163.7040902@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 17:06:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: putnam@speakeasy.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Unix Help Subject: Re: fsck failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:08:35 -0000 putnam@speakeasy.net wrote: > after rebooting my computer i recieved the measage > AUTOMATIC FILE CHECK FAILED; HELP! > I am at a loss here I cant even log in what do I do to correct this as well as my cdrom not working When this happens you should have the opportunity to boot into single-user mode. It sometimes takes a while ... wait a few minutes and you should get a prompt asking you what shell you want to start, the default is fine. Once at the command prompt, you'll want to get your filesystems fscked ... the easy way is: fsck -y The -y tells fsck to assume you'll answer yes to any questions, and it can save a lot of typing. If this returns errors, run it again. and keep re-running it until it runs without errors ... at that point your filesystems should be OK. Then you can type "reboot" and the system should be able to start without trouble. HTH. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com