System starts in emergency mode...how do I recover ?? (as a newbie)

[Tod Merley]

Thanks for the reminder to delete my original message.

But did not include in the message about the exact things you mention:

"Also you might look into using Clonezilla to make bare metal backups for
yourself. Saved my bottom many times working with a new SSD (many years
ago) which had a bad habit of loosing it's directory structure about every
6 weeks to three months - apparently a video vs disk hardware bus conflict.
Went away with a bios upgrade. "

Which was part of the message you mention.

thanks - and take care


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 24 August 2014, Tod Merley sent several major
> syntax errors:
> >  tail dmesg #prints the last ten lines of dmesg
>
> You mean:
>
>   dmesg|tail
>
> You have to pipe the output of dmesg through the tail command, to do
> what you want to do.
>
> >  less dmesg #prints several lines of dmesg with response to up/down
> > arrow to see the whole file - q to end
>
> Likewise, you really mean:
>
>   dmesg|less
>
> To pipe the output of the dmesg command through the less command, to
> allow paging through it.
>
> >  cat dmesg #prints the whole dmesg file to the screen all at once
>
> Also, wrong, and another completely unnecessary use of a cat.  Just use
> the dmesg command, by itself, and you'll see the whole output dumped to
> screen.
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
>
> ZNQR LBH YBBX
>
>
>
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