Re: [cobalt-users] HELP!! Raq 3 won't boot!

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> <<
>  Now, when I try to boot it, the LCD display briefly says something I
can't
>  see, followed by "loading kernel", followed by "Booting..." and furious
>  disk activity for about 2 minutes.  It never gets to "Starting mail",
>  "Starting DNS" or any of the other normal boot messages. I'm assuming
>  something got trashed when the power went down, but what do I do?  Do I
>  have to get a restore disk and reload the thing from scratch?
>

> nope you need to get in with a console via  a serial cable
> raq2's go through chkdsk, but raq3, when it is a bit more complicated,
they
> hang and ONLY a serial cable and  monitor/windows hyper terminal session
will
> get you in, once you connected the serial cable it is a piece of
cake..just
> follow the prompt
>

chkdsk???? My Raq2 dosen't have that..... But your right about the terminal.
use "df" for easy reading and then use fsck -a /dev/whatever

Zeffie