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Hey guys,
I recently installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 from a CD a friend
burned for me on an Intel P120 with a Maxtor 1.5gb hard drive. I am running a
dual boot system with Win98 on my primary HD and Linux on the other one (the 1.5
gb maxtor). I am mounting the windows drive (hda1) as /windows/ in linux. I use
LILO to choose which I want to boot in to. The problem is that upon booting into
linux a day or so after installation, I get the message "File system improperly
unmounted, check forced.." or something to that effect. It then tells me to run
fsck, which I do and then find out my file system is, from what I can tell,
completely screwed. Not knowing how to fix this, I have reinstalled Linux
several times over the past few days, hoping it was just a weird glitch, but I'm
getting tired of it happening. I always shut the machine down with the
line
shutdown -h now
or
CTRL+ALT+DEL
but still it happens upon booting (when it's running all the
things and saying "PASSED") that I get the "improperly unmounted" message. Any
ideas? I really want to love linux, and I've heard the ext2 system is more
finicky than fat32 about being improperly shutdown, but I can't think of
anything I'm doing wrong. Any and all help would be VERY much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark Hayenga
PS - This is my first ever experience with linux, so please
"dumb down" your advice as much as possible, I'll need it
:-)
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