On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, branden wrote about, 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
You should ONLY use one command first in the shell, that is 'fsck' just
type in those 4 magic letters and the partition to be fsck'd as in;
fsck /dev/hda1 where /dev/hda1 is your root partition number and
answer "y" to any questions fsck asks you.
> 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.
Then your cd in the drive might not be a bootable cdrom.
>
> 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?
Not in console mode, but you may have problems when trying to start X, you
are very vage in your description so noone can really give you acurate
answers.
> 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?
AFAIK all distributions of linux have bootdisks included on cdroms.
>
>
>
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