[Cialug] System boot halts at "Filesystem is NOT clean"

[David Champion]

Chris Hettinger wrote:
>  > Was syslog logging locally or to a remote machine?
>  > Do you know if there was anything unusual in the logs before you 
> rebooted it?
> 
> Likely locally, this box hadn't had much done to it other than an 
> install a few months ago. It was booted recently to be moved, but not 
> given the monitor or anything. It very well may have halted on the first 
> boot as far as I know.
> 
>  > There appears to be some disk corruption.
> 
> That was my fear.
> 
>  > Do you have physical access to the box?
> 
> Yes I do.
> 
>  > You may need to boot off of a CD.
> 
> I'll have to go that route.

...

I'm assuming this is one of your Mandriva systems? You should be able to 
boot off the install CD, I believe there's an option like "Hit F1 for 
more options", then at the prompt type "rescue".

There's a rescue menu, with options to fix your boot loader and stuff... 
I don't recall if there's a check file systems option, but you can exit 
to a shell and run the "reiserfsck /dev/<partition>"

-dc