Re: Rebuild?

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

> 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