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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

James,
  Can you run any commands? Did you try pwd to see where you are? When I
am logged in as user I'm at a "bash$" prompt in xterm . Do you boot to dos
first? If so then there may be an F? breakout to stay in dos.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, James Miller wrote:

> I installed BL2 to an old 486 notebook I had this past summer.  I had to
> remove the HD and do the bulk of the install by hooking it to a desktop
> computer, since the floppy drive on this machine is non-functional.
> Today, I had the machine running on its battery unattended and, of
> course, the battery ran low.  By the time I discovered this, it had
> already begun to beep, like it does some seconds before powering off from
> low battery power.  I thought I might have enough juice to shut down BL
> normally, so I ran shutdown -h now.  It started the shutdown process, but
> in the middle the power shut off.  BL's shutdown routine didn't have a
> chance to finish.  Now, when I try to start BL, I get HD errors.  fsck
> won't run, and after a couple of these errors I am dumped off at a bash
> prompt (from which fsck won't run either): maybe this is busybox?
>
> I think what I need to do to attempt to correct this error is to run
> fsck/e2fsck.  Does everyone agree?  If so, I need to figure out how.  The
> machine has no working floppy, as I mentioned.  It has a PCMCIA network
> card, but that is useless without PCMCIA functionality - which is
> installed on the BL partition I can't boot.  I have a DOS partition on
> this drive (PTS DOS) which still boots fine (no PCMCIA functionality
> there), and I run the BL boot script from there.  I also have the ramdrive
> version of BL2 set up there, so I can boot into it.  Unfortunately, it
> does not include fsck/e2fsck, and of course it can't handle PCMCIA either.
>
> I would appreciate suggestions on how I might recover from this error -
> assuming it's not a physical problem with the HD.
>
> Thanks, James
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