Are you sure your system is hung? You'll get this message when
filesystems have been mounted/unmounted a certain number of
times (I don't know how exactly how many, but it happens not
infrequently on laptops, since one tends to shutdown/reboot
more often than desktop machines). Basically, linux thinks
it's a darn good time to do a thorough fsck of your filesystem(s),
instead of just the normal cursory test of the clean flag. So
when you get this message, fsck is supposed to be checking
your filesystem -- is your hard drive indicator lit? (Is
the hard drive spinning?) If so, just let it finish -- it
needs to do this occasionally. If your hard drive is large
and/or slow, this could take a little while (several minutes
for a 4Gb partition, maybe). If there is no hard drive activity,
though, you probably have another problem. :-(
Hope this helps!
Scott
rj wrote:
>
>When I boot my system it hangs at the following point (the system is
>an HP Omnibook 5700CTX with RedHat 6.0 installed w/o additioinal
>patches):
>
> Checking root file system
> /dev/hda6 has reached maximal mount count, checked forced
>
>
>This seems to be a hard problem because I have tried to boot sever
>times with the same result.
>
>Can anyone explain what this is all about and what I have to do
>to fix the problem.
>
>Thanks!
>
