> Wow. A power failure is a bad thing regardless of OS, Linux is not going
to fix
> this. If you live in a place with a bad power system buy a smart ups.
UPS ? oh its very expensive!
in my province the power failure recently happen specially when it's (hard)
rain,
windy, even in a normal situation.
Linux is being promoted here, and i also want to introduce it to all
my friend that is still windows maniac. but i have to solve this problem
first.
in my place there's no one wants to buy UPS, except for the Office needs.
windows has no problem with this, even i didn't install the NDD.
> As for the umount trouble, did you upgrade the kernel? If not, this is the
cause
> of that. Now with the other trouble I've no idea. Try setting the default
run
> level to 3 (boot into single user like before to make the change). I,
personally
> think it's lame to boot into kdm, xdm, etc. Boot into the command line
(run
> level 3) and if something bad happens and your X dies you don't have these
> problems.
Yes, i have now. I reinstall Mandrake, then upgrade kernel, booting 2 times.
run some X application then close it. then i push the power button
(no application run, i also make sure that the hd is idle)
> Alternatively reinstall your OS. A newbie should do this 4-5 times any
way, play
> with partitions, different packages, etc.
This is the third times. i hope that i'll successfull for the forth.
Luqman
