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phlaaj

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Registered: 2010-12-24

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] fsck boot problem

Hi everyone,

So I wanted to do a manual fsck since I don't like how it usually just springs it on you randomly. So, according to the Wiki, I entered

# shutdown -Fr now

as root. Computer restarted, started booting, then gave me a black screen with nothing except a flashing cursor in the upper left at the place where Grub was supposed to show up. It seemed like none of the commands or passwords I entered would register. I hard powered-off the computer, manually restarted, but it gave the same black screen and no Grub or Arch. So this is fairly urgent for me to get solved as I can't start Arch at the moment, let alone run fsck, but I feel like a total noob - any help is very much appreciated!

Last edited by phlaaj (2011-03-22 18:23:37)

phlaaj

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Registered: 2010-12-24

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] fsck boot problem

sorry for the false alarm - the problem solved itself, although I don't know how. After the above post, I hard-powered-off the computer for a second time from the black screen, and this time it booted into Grub and then Arch and is now fsck-ing. This makes no sense to me...but w/e

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED] fsck boot problem

Sounds like a hardware or BIOS issue as it happens before grub even starts loading.

phlaaj

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Registered: 2010-12-24

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] fsck boot problem

That makes sense - apologies again for making a post out of this. I've restarted the computer since then no problem, so hopefully this issue doesn't come up again.