On 16-Aug-99 The Postman wrote:
> When I shut Linux down, it never unmounts the hard drive correctly. It just
> hastefully shuts down. I might as well just hit the power button to shut
> everything down. On the following page is a fix specifically designed to
> address this problem...
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
>
> Here is what I did after downloading the appropriate files...
>
> rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm
>
> I didn't get any error messages when installing these items. But when I
> shut down, the drive still will NOT unmount properly. Is there something
> that I am supposed to do besides run the RPM command to install these items?
Yes, make sure /etc/lilo.conf is pointing to the new kernel, and then run
'lilo' to update the MBR.
-Tom
