On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a Presario 1640 notebook with an ide drive.
>
> About every third time I reboot/shutdown my machine when I reboot
> I get a notification that my drive was not cleanly unmounted. So far fsck
> does't seem to find any big errors....
>
> My method of shutdown doesn't seem to matter either. (shutdown or
> shutdown&restart from kdm or crtl-alt-del).
>
> Any ideas other than upgrading to the latester kernel?
>
This is a known problem with the stock kernel install from the CDROM.
You HAVE to upgrade the kernel and init scripts to fix it. Just
remember to edit your lilo.conf and re-run /sbin/lilo afterwards. :-)
John