Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?

[Ribbo]

On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 04:25:11PM +0800, Luqman Hakim said:

> My friend has SuSE, and he have tested his SuSE by pushing the power
> button before shutdown (many times), like i do(1x) in my 3rd install,
> to test that the distro can pass the power failure. His SuSE always
> run smootly without any problem. 

yup... i guess that mandrake's kernel is fragile.

> then the "mount/unmount [failed]" problem become
> an eternal problem in Mandrake until i reinstall it. And it's still be a
> problem after i upgrading the kernel and initscripts.
> :-(

make sure to  edit your lilo.conf after you upgrade the kernel.

#pico /etc/lilo.conf
change the kernel line to xxxx.27mdk
save

#lilo  


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Rib