>
> I executed lilo from the command line, then executed
> "shutdown -r now". And then real problems started as in I can not
> boot any more (right now I am running under NT4.0). The re-boot
> stopped with the following:
>
> Checking root file system.
> /dev/hda6 has reached maximal mount count, check forced
That is perfectly normal, just wait a while, whats happening is that 'fsck'
is checking your disk, the larger the disk the longer it takes to complete,
on a P200 1gb could take upto 1 minute to complete..
>
> I have attempeted to re-boot several times with the same result. I
> then tried to boot from the rescue disk that was made during the
> original loading of linux but that does not seem to work either as it
> would appear that I need a floppy with a copy of "rescue.img" and
> I never built it.
>
> Am I totaly hosed and have to reload the system or is there a way
> to get the system back? If I have to reload RedHat6.0 is there a
> way to do that without hoseing all the stuff I loaded after the
> system was up; I had downloaded many MB of stuff and would prefer
> not to have to do that again.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>
> > rj enscribed thusly:
> > > One more data point to the problem. Just for grins at boot I entered
> > > at the boot: promt linux mem=128M. After finishing the boot I looked
> > > at the output from top and the system was addressing all 128MB of
> > > RAM. This is clearly not a long term solution but maybe it will
> > > help in getting there.
> >
> > > It was suggested that the "append" line be moved to just after the
> > > "install" line but that did not help. I also tired putting it the
> > > first line in the file and that did not help either.
> >
> > That should have worked. Did you run "lilo" after making the
> > change? You always have to run lilo as a command, any time the lilo.conf
> > file is altered.
> >
> > > Anyway any suggestions greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, rj wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have installed RedHat 6.0 on a system with 128MB of RAM. At boot the
> > > > system does a mem check and sees all the RAM (as does NT4.0). I have
> > > > added append="mem=128M" (thanks Ray) to /etc/lilo.conf and that has
> > > > not helped. I will include a copy of the file below and the first few
> > > > lines of output from the "top" command.
> > > >
> > > > How can I get the system to see all 128MB of RAM?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> > > > boot=/dev/hda
> > > > map=/boot/map
> > > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > > prompt
> > > > timeout=50
> > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> > > > append="mem=128M"
> > > > label=linux
> > > > root=/dev/hda6
> > > > read-only
> > > >
> > > > >From top:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2:00am up 38 min, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.05
> > > > 84 processes: 82 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > > CPU states: 6.0% user, 4.2% system, 0.0% nice, 89.6% idle
> > > > Mem: 63200K av, 61580K used, 1620K free, 74176K shrd, 1588K buff
> > > > Swap: 133016K av, 524K used, 132492K free 27436K cached
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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