[gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[b.n.]

Hi,

After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I
rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:

/dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)

And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem is,
my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot into
my system.

I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I wonder
- if there's some other solution
- something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?

Thanks,
m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[Jamie Dobbs]

Perhaps try an external keyboard?

> Hi,
>
> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I
> rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
>
> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem is,
> my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot into
> my system.
>
> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I wonder
> - if there's some other solution
> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?
>
> Thanks,
> m.
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop,
> I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
>
> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem
> is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot
> into my system.
>
> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I
> wonder - if there's some other solution
> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?

try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" 
to the end of the kernel line. Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot 
up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't 
really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are 
connected or wired up



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Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[b.n.]

Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop,
>> I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
>>
>> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>>
>> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem
>> is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot
>> into my system.
>>
>> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I
>> wonder - if there's some other solution
>> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?
> 
> try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" 
> to the end of the kernel line. 

Tried that, it seems it doesn't work (it seems to ignore it, but I am
not sure. I'll try again).

> Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot 
> up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't 
> really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are 
> connected or wired up

I think Linux sees it as an USB keyboard, but I don't know for sure.

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[Florian Philipp]

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On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:56 +0100, b.n. wrote:
> Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> > On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop,
> >> I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> >> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> >>
> >> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem
> >> is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot
> >> into my system.
> >>
> >> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I
> >> wonder - if there's some other solution
> >> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?
> > 
> > try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" 
> > to the end of the kernel line. 
> 
> Tried that, it seems it doesn't work (it seems to ignore it, but I am
> not sure. I'll try again).
> 
> > Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot 
> > up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't 
> > really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are 
> > connected or wired up
> 
> I think Linux sees it as an USB keyboard, but I don't know for sure.
> 
> m.

Most probably you compiled HID, USB-HID and/or your USB-controller as
kernel modules, which cannot be loaded prior to mounting /.

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