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1236590 2011-10-10 08:05:00 My OpenSUSE stopped booting for a while (it's fine now). The failsafe boot option didn't work

What do people do in this situation? (for OpenSUSE or other distros)

I'm a bit of a newb with linux
benZ (16564)
1236591 2011-10-10 08:37:00 Did it fix itself?

Normally you would look for the error message and ask (or search) for what may have cause it and a solution.
Jen (38)
1236592 2011-10-10 09:20:00 What you would do depends on whether the error is a boot loader problem or after that - i.e. an OS loading problem. Typically you might try to re-install the boot loader or fsck (file system check) the boot partition. However if this happens it normally indicates something quite serious is wrong! johnd (85)
1236593 2011-10-10 09:32:00 Yes it fixed itself

I was interested in knowing what sort of things people did when linux doesn't boot - such as boot disks under Windows

Looking up the error message is a good suggestion. I assume tho that not all boot problems have an easy solution

Just generally interested

:)
benZ (16564)
1236594 2011-10-10 09:42:00 @johnd

yeah I'm wondering now if the hardware is a bit flaky

Is there some standard set of tools to do that stuff? (recovery disk or something)

Thanks for suggestions
benZ (16564)
1236595 2011-10-11 06:25:00 The tools used by most people are either the live CD from the distribution you have installed or better something like PartedMagic. (sourceforge.net) johnd (85)
1236596 2011-10-11 07:13:00 Thanks. Ran fsck- seemed to work, am downloading the ISO

Problem comes and goes- i think swap partition getting errors
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