Troubleshooting
My system is prompting me for my root password at boot up. (I was not asked for a username.) What's going on?
The system has found some corruption in the filesystem that it is unable to cope with. You should read and follow the instructions on the screen. They will say something to the effect of File system corruption, run fsck manually. Assuming the corruption was found on disk partition /dev/hda3, you need to run the following:
fsck -f /dev/hda3
You can add the -y option to the line if you are unfamiliar with repairing a filesystem manually. When fsck has finished, just log out, and the system reboots.
During boot, the process stops (at loading amd or some other daemon). What should I do?
Wait. Make sure a full two minutes ...
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