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Nivesh Sood wrote:

> Hey all I am having trouble with my linux box.
>
> On this machine there is a dual boot between win98/linux. Default boot is
> linux , what happened today in the morning is, this other guy in the office
> started the machine, it booted to linux he didnt understand what happened so
> he rebooted it manually...or just switched the power off....
>
> So now when linux tries to bootup and mount the filesystem in read/write
> mode it says "file system errors on hdb1(thats my linux native) check
> forced. Well somehow it aint able to clear the problem, it asks me for the
> 'root password for maintainence' or 'ctrl-d' for normal startup. If i give
> in the root password it logs me in, in read mode only....and if I press
> ctrl-d it doesnt do anything, but gives another series of errors and
> reboots...so now im kinda stuck !
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem ? maybe by logging in my root and fixing
> something ?
>
> I can use all the help I get
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Nivesh

login as root
and run
fsck /dev/hdb1