error checking file system?

[chief_illini_4_ever]

Hi everyone,
Recently my linux system crashed and the only way i could shut it down was to turn the power off and back on. Then when i rebooted it said the hard drive was not unmounted properly and was being checked... no big deal ...has happened before.
(By the way i have linux Mandrake 7.2 installed on a second hard drive hdb1)

So this time when it was checking the file system it takes me out to a shell and says...

"An error has occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell.

Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D for normal starup)"

I'm very new to linux and know nothing of what to do at the shell. I was wondering if you fine people could help me get back up and running.

I think the problem is that it says the file system ext2 is read only.

What do i need to do to get back up and running? please let me know if you have any ideas and also please be very thorough with instructions because i'm very new and have very little "common knowledge"
thank you very much

kyle

[yasasvi]

HI,
I am also a jr grasshopper.I had the same problem. I ran fsck for the partition on which penguin sits.Command runs like this
fsck hda2 (for me it was hda2 on which peguin sitting ). I hope it also works for you.If it works, post a message.

Bye & best of luck

suresh ;)

[chief_illini_4_ever]

Hi tried typing
fsck hdb1 at the shell logged in as root and it said
"Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)

So i guess i need another solution to the problem because this didn't change anything.. It still has the same error when i try and boot.

Please help me out on this as it is the only way i have of accessing the internet now that code red has struck my isp. :(
Thanks in advance
kyle

[bdg1983]

Would that be 'fsck /dev/hdb1'?

I believe you need the /dev for it to work.