I executed lilo from the command line, then executed
"shutdown -r now". And then real problems started as in I can not
boot any more (right now I am running under NT4.0). The re-boot
stopped with the following:
Checking root file system.
/dev/hda6 has reached maximal mount count, check forced
I have attempeted to re-boot several times with the same result. I
then tried to boot from the rescue disk that was made during the
original loading of linux but that does not seem to work either as it
would appear that I need a floppy with a copy of "rescue.img" and
I never built it.
Am I totaly hosed and have to reload the system or is there a way
to get the system back? If I have to reload RedHat6.0 is there a
way to do that without hoseing all the stuff I loaded after the
system was up; I had downloaded many MB of stuff and would prefer
not to have to do that again.
Thanks for any help!
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> rj enscribed thusly:
> > One more data point to the problem. Just for grins at boot I entered
> > at the boot: promt linux mem=128M. After finishing the boot I looked
> > at the output from top and the system was addressing all 128MB of
> > RAM. This is clearly not a long term solution but maybe it will
> > help in getting there.
>
> > It was suggested that the "append" line be moved to just after the
> > "install" line but that did not help. I also tired putting it the
> > first line in the file and that did not help either.
>
> That should have worked. Did you run "lilo" after making the
> change? You always have to run lilo as a command, any time the lilo.conf
> file is altered.
>
> > Anyway any suggestions greatly appreciated!
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, rj wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed RedHat 6.0 on a system with 128MB of RAM. At boot the
> > > system does a mem check and sees all the RAM (as does NT4.0). I have
> > > added append="mem=128M" (thanks Ray) to /etc/lilo.conf and that has
> > > not helped. I will include a copy of the file below and the first few
> > > lines of output from the "top" command.
> > >
> > > How can I get the system to see all 128MB of RAM?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> > > boot=/dev/hda
> > > map=/boot/map
> > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > prompt
> > > timeout=50
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> > > append="mem=128M"
> > > label=linux
> > > root=/dev/hda6
> > > read-only
> > >
> > > >From top:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2:00am up 38 min, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.05
> > > 84 processes: 82 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > CPU states: 6.0% user, 4.2% system, 0.0% nice, 89.6% idle
> > > Mem: 63200K av, 61580K used, 1620K free, 74176K shrd, 1588K buff
> > > Swap: 133016K av, 524K used, 132492K free 27436K cached
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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