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