On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:

> My wife did not notice that her laptop was unplugged, and ran the
> machine until it quit for lack of power.  Running SL 6.1 IA-32, current
> production SL kernel (not elrepo, etc.).  On the reboot with improperly
> unmounted partitions, the auto fsck failed, and gave the usual enter
> root password or ctrl-D prompt to run fsck manually.  When this
> happened, rather than accept the full root password, after the first few
> characters, the enter prompt re-appeared, and would never let me get to
> a shell.  I finally had to put the install DVD that has the rescue
> option into the DVD drive and boot from the DVD, and used fsck -y under
> rescue to fsck the partitions from ls /dev/sd*.  The system then
> rebooted.  What is wrong?  What do I need to change?
>
> Yasha Karant
>

What partitions does this system have?

-Connie Sieh