FC 3:"Unclean" shutdown, how to fix? [Archive]

Maria84

17th November 2006, 09:14 PM

b_martinez

17th November 2006, 10:41 PM

My Compaq Evo N620c has Win 98 SE and FC 3 on it. One time the battery was empty and while running FC the power cord accidentally came off and comp shut down. Since then I haven't been able to run FC, it only says that the shut down was not clean and asks for the fix. Since I'm total newbie I have no idea what to do..

And after that crash happened I updated my Win 98 to SE and now it won't give the startup menu with FC as one choise :(

Thanks for any help!

*M
Updating the Win98 likely installed the Win bootloader to the MBR. As to the corruption....
Do you still have the FC3 install disks? At least #1? If so , boot up with that, and type in ,at the prompt, (before it boots the installation)

linux rescue

and hit enter. Do the integrity test if you want, but I never do. Accept the defaults , and make sure that it sees the correct placement of the FC3 partition. Then, after it is all booted up in rescue mode (more commands, each line followed by hitting the 'enter' key

fsck -A /dev/hda

if you get a message about the program not running on mounted file systems or a warning about it

umount /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3/dev/hda4

and so on until you have unmounted all the partitions. Of course, I'm guessing that Win98 is on 1st partition, and you have a root,swap and home partition. If you have more, just add them in.
What you will be doing:
fsck -A will go through the partitions listed in /etc/fstab, in the order they are listed in the file system tables.
umount=unmount so fsck will work.
You may want to limit the fsck (file system check) to the root partition. Just for speed reasons, But then you need to know which partition it is.
After the fsck is finished, then ,

grub --install /dev/hda

should get your GRUB re-installed
hth
Bill