Have you tried running fsck on ALL of the ext2 partitions in the system?
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From: branden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 9:54 AM
Subject: Problem booting from CD
> Greetings,
>
> Recently, I have shutdown my machine (AMD450 6.4Gb) improperly so many
> times that now I'm getting a message saying
>
> ...you have been dropped to a shell. (Press Control+D for normal start
up):
>
> After recieving this message I usually give the root password to get into
> the system unfortunately, I don't know enough to do any kind of
maintenance
> and after 3 or 4 commands the keyboard ends up freezing which is why I
have
> been shutting down improperly anyway. When I try to run the rescue image I
> end up getting a kernel panic. I would like to boot from the cd and
> reinstall RH6.0 on my machine. But when I go into the BIOS and set it to
> boot from the cd it ends up booting like normal leading me to the same
> error message rather than run an install.
>
> I would like to know, this problem I'm having with the keyboard freezing
> could this be do to the fact that when I install RH6.0 the monitor,
> keyboard, and mouse are different from the ones I use when I take my
system
> home to use it? And, how can I get the install program to run so that I
can
> reinstall, because simply booting from the cd doesn't seem to be working
> and the cd is not giving me the rescue image as an option?
>
>
>
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