On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, 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
>
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>
> 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.
>
Nahh...just let it run through it's check. It's an
automatic "scandisk" type thingy that Linux does after so
many reboot/mount sequences. Just a safety thing. It'll
slow your reboot process somewhat every once in a while,
but it's for your own safety so that you WON'T "hose" your
system by booting with a system that's got bad clusters.
Again, don't sweat it, just reboot to Linux, and go walk
away for 10-15 minutes (depending on how big your hard
drive is) and let Linux do it's thing. Eventually you'll
walk back in and it'll be sitting there at the login
prompt. :-)
John
