Good riddance to F13: Looking forward to F14?

[Chris Smart]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Thanks very much!

No need to thank me, I might not have said anything useful ;-)

> No, I can try this. I guess this would be in safe mode.

Yes, "safe mode" or "single user mode" as we call it in *nix world ;-)

At the grub prompt (press esc until it comes up) edit your Fedora line
and add "single" to the kernel line. If you've already booted, you
might like to edit your grub config (/boot/grub/menu.lst) and set the
timeout to something other than zero, perhaps timeout=5.

In single user mode you should be able to do a file system check on
your partitions. If you don't know what they are, run the df command
before you reboot to see where / is mounted (or grab it from the
kernel line in grub's menu.lst).

Something like:
fsck /dev/disk/by-uuid/8828eacb-11b9-45b8-8558-d2f945c337f6

As for S.M.A.R.T, you can use palimpsest (gnome disk utility) or the
smart command line utility (yum install smartmontools). It might be
helpful to check whether the BIOS has S.M.A.R.T turned on.

>
> What are these magic keys?

They're magical ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

-c