> davidturetsky wrote: > > I just tried to boot from the floppy after previously finding keyboard > and mouse frozen with my stab at installing x > > the boot process paused with "/dev/hda was not cleanly unmounted, > check forced" > > Only Ctl-c got it to continue
Bad move. Linux was not frozen, it was checking your disk! > The login failed with, "unable to change tty /dev/tt1: Illegal seek > > Sounds like I may have to rebuild my Linux system... not a big > problem, but if there is a quicker and more elegant fix, I would > welcome hearing about it Try rebooting again, but this time let the check continue. Matthew