Dear people at SLUG, I hope you can help me, or can recommend someone who could help me with a bit of advice to get me started. I have just got my own computer for Christmas/ birthday (an old one, but it should be OK) and have installed Linux Red Hat 7.1. Everything was fine until one day the Gnome menu gave me the options: log out, halt, or reboot. I accidentally pressed halt on the footprint picture, and the computer switched off. The next morning when I tried to reboot Linux, this is what happened. First it says that the hard disk was not cleanly unmounted. Then it goes through something like a scandisk process, then it gets to the login prompt and then the screen goes blank/black and stays that way. So I have to keep shutting it down wrongly all the time. This time I pressed "I" to enter interactive startup and went through the whole thing and when it got to login, it still flickered and went black. I'm sorry to have to bother you, but my parents don't know anything about computers. I have to get a proper Linux manual, but I'm only 9 (next week) so I haven't got it yet. I've got Gnome for Dummies but it doesn't cover this. I would really, really appreciate any help I could get to just get Linux to boot up. Thank you very much, L.M.
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