major problem linux starts in matanense shell

sorry i have so many problem im new at this

sorry i have so many problem im new at this

what exact version of ubuntu are you running? tell us something about your hardware! does the live-cd start?

its kubuntu fiesty fawn 7.06 i think. well the livecd works because this has happend before i used it to freash instal( it had happend twice)

i have a lappy which is a hp pavilion dv 1000 series, intel celeron processor, 502mb of ram, and 80 gigs of hdd space.
its the special edition

this suck because i finally got most of everything runing smoothly and i realy like linux. but this just happend again

so you say the live-cd runs fine?
then you installed kubuntu 7.04 successfully?
did it then never start or was it running and now isn't anymore?
please describe exactly what is happening. otherwise helping is really hard...

alright i used the live cd to install kunbutu and i just got done installing everything needed to get it working smothing. i put in disk to play useing the playstation emulator and it froze. this isnt the first time it froze. but i did the same and turn it of by unpluging it.

You are dropped to the recovery console (root@xxx>), right? Does it show any errors when booting?

yes exactly er ill be back in like thirty but it says sumething like darddrive error and then say nuthin is installed such as apt-get

Try giving some more details about the errors it gives. Type dmesg and the copy output here.

Ah, sorry you would have to transport it on a floppy, or by some other means to paste it here, probably not worth it, but maybe it has some lines that would explain what's the problem?

ill do the best i can do. ill use two computers.

er i cant get everything i just see stuff about the net and the tuoch pad
isd there something i should look for

Most important would be the things it outputs before you're dropped to the console. There is probably the reason for it. Details about this "hard drive error" and this "nothing is installed error".

You can scroll using Shift+PageDown, Shift+PageUp. There should be some error, failure or a warning at least.
You can save this dmesg to a file doing: "dmesg > bla.txt", then maybe you can get it here somehow (running a live cd maybe?).

By the way, when it freezes you can try to switch console: Alt+Control+F1, login there, and make a soft reboot by issuing: "sudo reboot now".

cant save the hard drive is in read only mode

this is the best i could do

fsck 1.40-WIP (14-nov-2006)
/dev/sda3 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
/dev/sda3: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually
              (i.e., without -a or -p options)
bash: no job control in this shell
bash: groups: command not found
bash lesspipe comand not found
bash: the: command not found
the program apt-get is currently not installed/ you can install it by typeing:
apt-get install apt
bash: apt-get command not found
bash dircolors command not found
bash the command not found

dmesg i didnt see any errors

thank you i apreciat it i dont mean so much of a noob but im new to linux

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.