Basically, you're saying that you are doing something wrong, and would we
please tell you what it is. But you give us way too little detail about the
problems for us to have a good shot at doing so (beyond the possibility of a
lucky guess).
So ... the general advice is to be more detailed about what is happening,
quoting complete and exact error messages that you see and commands that you
enter. Beyond that, I'll try to offer some specific advice (interspersed
below), but please remember that it is largely guesswork, based on what I
imagine you are seeing but not reporting.
At 10:54 AM 2/25/00 -0500, branden wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Recently, I have shutdown my machine (AMD450 6.4Gb) improperly so many
>times that now I'm getting a message saying
>
>...you have been dropped to a shell. (Press Control+D for normal start up):
>
>After recieving this message I usually give the root password to get into
>the system unfortunately, I don't know enough to do any kind of maintenance
>and after 3 or 4 commands the keyboard ends up freezing which is why I have
>been shutting down improperly anyway.
You probably need to run e2fsck manually. If you look at the messages that
preceed the one you quote, you mae even see an instruction to this effect
(or a minor variant, like running fsck.ext2). Try it, and just say yes to
all the questions it asks.
You may have filesystem damage beyond e2fsck's ability to fix. That would be
unuual and probably would be reason for a reinstall.
>When I try to run the rescue image I
>end up getting a kernel panic.
The message says more than kernel panic, and the more is the information we
need. It may be as simple as trying to mount a non-existent root filesystem.
It may be as serious as defective hardware (e.g., bad memory). No way to
tell without the details.
>I would like to boot from the cd and
>reinstall RH6.0 on my machine. But when I go into the BIOS and set it to
>boot from the cd it ends up booting like normal leading me to the same
>error message rather than run an install.
This can be either of three things:
1. You are making a mistake in doing the BIOS settings.
2. A hardware problem of some sort. What equipment are you using? What
messages does the BIOS display about the boot sequence it is attempting
(some machines are VERY informative here; others tell you nothing)? Is the
CD drive a standard ATAPI drive?
3. A bad CD, one with a defective or missing boot record. Where did the RH
6.0 CD come from (official Red Hat? Cheapbytes or equivalent? burned from
ISO image by you or a friend?)?
>
>I would like to know, this problem I'm having with the keyboard freezing
>could this be do to the fact that when I install RH6.0 the monitor,
>keyboard, and mouse are different from the ones I use when I take my system
>home to use it?
This is improbable. If you are running X (you don't say anywhere that I can
see - but you wouldn't be in the rescue mode you describe), changing
monitors might mess up the display, but it shouldn't cause the keyboard to
"freeze". AS long as the keyboard and mouse are the same kinds (you are not,
for example, switching between a serial and PS/2 mouse), that should be okay
too ... you could have problems, but not a complete system freeze.
>And, how can I get the install program to run so that I can
>reinstall, because simply booting from the cd doesn't seem to be working
>and the cd is not giving me the rescue image as an option?
What do you mean by "giving me" in the last part? On my RD 6.0 CD (a freebie
given out by RH at last summer's Linuxworld), the disk images are in \images
(assuming a Windows system) or /mountpoint/images (assuming a Linux system -
replace "mountpoint" with the CD's actual point point, typically /cdrom ot
/mnt/cdrom).
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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