This is not an error; it is a normal part of the Unix/Linux boot process.
The kernel is just checking the filesystem for possible sync errors. It
keeps a count somewhere of the number of times the system has been rebooted,
then every n-th time, does a complete check. It will also do one if you
shutdown improprely (i.e., bu turning the system off without running
"shutdown" or "halt" first).
On the rescue disk problem ... you should be able to find "rescue.img"
somewhere on your RH CD and make a disk from it under DOS using rawrite.
At 10:43 AM 7/26/99 -0400, rj wrote:
>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.
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