My system too has the filesystem trouble. Since I switched to Mandrake
6.0, the machine always fails to unmount the filesystems on shutdown.
This results in what you described below. I don't have the eth0 trouble
that you mention though. Is anybody else having this filesystem unmount
trouble?
Stephen Anderson
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Bob Gilley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Was able to download the new .iso file last Thursday and managed to burn
> a CD-ROM before going home for the long weekend. So far I like what's
> been added to 6.0 over 5.3, however there are some glitches that did not
> happen with 5.3, such as;
>
> When ever I turn the machine on or reboot I get the following during the
> boot script (init file?),
>
> Checking root filesystem
> dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> dev/hda1 : Deleted node 41213 has zero dtime. FIXED
>
> and
> Delaying eth0 initialization [FAILED]
>
> There is almost always a core dump file in my root directory as well.
> Everything seems to be working OK after the machine boots, but I still
> want to know what is causing this and what I can do to fix the problem.
>
> My computer is a Compaq Presario 1681 laptop with 96 meg of ram and a
> 3.2 gig hard drive. The Information Systems group could not get it to
> work with the new Novell client for Windows and they were going to scrap
> it. I asked the director of I.S. for the computer so that I might learn
> more about Linux. Thus I have a freebie laptop running an open source
> OS.
>
> One other annoying problem that was carried over from 5.3 is I can not
> run the laptop on battery power for mor than a few minutes before the
> battery seems to be fully drained. With windows on the machine it would
> last about two hours. I was thinking the laptop settings in 6.0 might
> solve this problem but I have not figured it out yet. Do I need to
> disable power management in the BIOS?
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> Bob Gilley
>
>
