I am running Suse 11.0 and the system had stopped working. I booted from the disk and chose repair system. Now I can get to the Give root password for login and it accepts the password, but I get the line
(repair filesystem) #
What do I do next?
In what way has 11.0 stopped working?
At that point you would normally do:
fsck /dev/sdx
(replace “/dev/sdx” with the device for your root files system). If you don’t know, try “df” - it will probably tell you, since at this point the root file systems should be mounted read-only.
Alternatively, try “fsck -y /dev/sdx” - the “-y” gives an automatic answer of “yes” to every question, and may make things easier if you don’t want to see the gory details.
When done, assuming that the “fsck” is successful, use “reboot” and hopefully the system will boot normally.
If the disk is too badly damage, or if it is failing hardware, this could all fail. In that case you would need a replacement hard drive, then recover from a backup or reinstall.
It depends very much on what is wrong with your system. What you get is a prompt. And you are root, trhus be carefull!
But as long as you do not know what is wrong, you probably do not know what command to type. And when you do not tell us more then the very vague
the system had stopped working
we can not be of much help.
Thus give much, much more information about what happens or happens not.