Re: Lino SCSI No Show
Re: Lino SCSI No Show
- Subject: Re: Lino SCSI No Show
- From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:12:28 -0600
At 10:37 am -0600 1/20/03, Anthony Sanna wrote:
>A few things I may have forgotten to mention about fsck: Always
use it from single-user mode (start up >with command-s). If fsck
finds any problems run it again (and again) until it finds no
problems.
Thank you for the comprehensive advice. Even if it may be a belt,
suspenders, rope, and a nail-gun approach, I like, and will try your
sequential, systematic method of prophylactic file repair. I may
even toss a pinch of salt and a dead cat over my left shoulder as
well.
I think the canonical version requires a chicken, a straight razor
and someone on percussion to provide background for the strange
dance... :)
One question, however, could you tell me how to initiate the fsck
process again.
From OS X choose {Apple Menu} Shut Down (though Restart should work
just as well, if you respond quickly).
Press the power key to restart the computer.
As soon as the computer starts to reboot hold down both <Command
{Apple key}> and <s {the un-shifted 's' key}>. If you have done this
properly you should see an all text screen with a lot of
undecipherable descriptions of the system and the processes being
launched. You are in single-user root mode, so tread carefully if you
want to explore.
With 10.1.x you will see fsck instructions just above your cursor;
for 10.2.x you'll just get a generic shell prompt.
Regardless: Type "fsck -y" without the quotes. If fsck finds any
problems reboot the computer by typing "reboot" (without the...) and
hold down <Command-s>. Re-run fsck -y until no problems are found.
Reboot the computer by typing "reboot" at the command line.
Whether this cures your specific Lino problems or not, this is a good
way to make sure that your boot disk is in <reasonably> good repair.
Afterwards, if you have nothing better to do, run Disk Utility from
the Utilities directory in your Applications folder. Choose First Aid
from amongst the tabs and choose your boot disk in the left-hand
column. Choose Repair Permissions from the right-hand pane and wait.
May not help, but cannot hurt....
For more information on helpful command key combinations try this URL:
<
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459>
Good luck,
-=-Dennis
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