Broken R H 7.3, Rescue ?

[josephc at etards.net]

At the prompt, press "I" for interactive startup, and say "no" to the line 
that says "starting wine" and see of things work fine from there. It may 
just be something borky with wine.

-joe

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:

> Hello
> I broken my Laptop (RH 7.3), and don't know how...
> Dual Boot machine, RH will not complete boot (but Windoze boots ok).
> try to boot and init runs to "starting wine" which to me is about end of boot sequence. Then I expect Red Hat Icon (splash screen?)
> but appears to hang before seeing Icon...
> 
> then sits there and periodically flashes
> some micro message on LCD such as 'Red Hat 7.3 installed'
> for about click of finger (50 millisecs.)
> 
> Tried "Linux Rescue with CD disk #1 ...
> Can get access to rescue shell and ran "fsck -p /dev/hda2" also
> ran "fsck -p /dev/hda3" 
> which returns without any msg or error (?)
> 
> Note partitions <IIRCC>: 
> /dev/hda1 = Windoze, 
> /dev/hda2 = Linux -2 gig,
> /dev/hda3 = Swap, 
> end of disk, 7 meg undefined ? 
> 
> Ran "badblocks /dev/hda2" at shell but returned after 5 minutes
> without indication or error (?)
> 
> What else can I do, short of reinstall and losing data?
> 
> Comments, advice welcomed ...
> 
> Karina
> 
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