Repair - Reinstall - Restore

[Brian McKee]

On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 02:15  PM, mascarasnake wrote:

> <ReallyRecklessAdvice>
> If you can't get the install disk to cooperate with 'linux rescue', 
> you can hard shutdown your box (eg. unplug it) and reboot, making 
> certain to run 'fsck' on reboot. If the drive is already fried...
> </ReallyRecklessAdvice>

A less, ummmm, exciting approach is to type as root
shutdown -F -r now
The -F will force fsck to run on reboot.

Although yanking the plug may be more emotionally satisfying :-)
HTH
Brian

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