FC5 x86-64 crash, not able to start again.

[korgull]

On Monday 17 April 2006 20:27, korgull wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My box just crashed (needed hard reset) while doing some minor job on it
> (switching TV channels in tvtime) and I can't get back into it.
> The box has been running FC5 for about a week now and before that FC4 for a
> long time.
> It drops me on a shell but I see only one error :
> fsck.ext3 : unable to resolve "LABEL=/backup".
>
> This my backup drive and although important, the system should be able to
> start without it. It's set to "noauto" in fstab so I expect it to skip the
> it as well.
> I wonder why the label can't be found though.

Wow, I just started the FC5 install DVD and used "linux rescue"
I let it mount the drives and didn't do anything further besides doing a nice 
ctrl-alt-del to restart the box.

Now the box starts.

It's nice that it works again, but I get a feeling that I only had on Windows 
before :-)

regards,
Marcel