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Sometimes a partition can become corrupt from an improper shutdown or a power outage. If you find a Groovix workstation having issues booting properly, follow the steps below to attempt a repair of any corrupt partitions.

Boot into Groovix with a live DVD; steps on how to do this can be found here: Running Groovix PAC Live\Groovix Demo
Login with username/barcode gvuser and your gvuser/staff password
Upon login, press CTRL+ALT+G to pull up the Groovix Menu and type in the administrator password
From the Groovix Menu, choose option #4, open an xterm as the root user
In the terminal windows, type fsck -f /dev/sda1 and press ENTER to execute the command. Answer any prompts by pressing the Y key for Yes
If any errors are found, re-run the command for that partition by pressing the UP ARROW key and pressing ENTER
Repeat the fsck -f command for the following partitions: (pressing the UP ARROW will retype the command, you can then backspace out the last number and replace it with the next in the list)

fsck -f /dev/sda6
fsck -f /dev/sda7
fsck -f /dev/sda8
fsck -f /dev/sda9

Type shutdown -r now to reboot the machine and try the boot process again

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 * Boot into Groovix with a live DVD; steps on how to do this can be found here: [http://wiki.groovix.org/index.php?title=Groovix_Installation_Guide#Groovix_PAC_Live Running Groovix PAC Live\Groovix Demo]
-* Login with gvuser name and password
+* Login with username/barcode gvuser and your gvuser/staff password
 * Upon login, press '''CTRL+ALT+G''' to pull up the [[Groovix Menu]] and type in the administrator password
 * From the Groovix Menu, choose option #4, open an xterm as the root user