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Re: force check on boot



On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:43:34AM -0400, Silvan wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2004 10:39 am, disciple@exis.net wrote:
> > /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> >
> > I'm getting this every time I boot my system.  When I shut down, I do
> > either exit or logout, and then manually shut down the laptop.  Laptop
is
> > a Dell c610.  How do I fix this?  How do I get the laptop to shutdown
> > without me manually pushing the button?

You can just reboot. Wait for it to finish cleaning up then just manualy
press the power switch.

> 
> I'm not sure how to get newer equipment to turn itself off reliably.  It
seems 
> to be a question of APM vs. ACPI.  I've got one box that will, and two
boxes 
> that won't.  The ACPI info I've been able to find is grossly out of date,
and 
> I haven't had much luck.
> 
> However, even on the boxes that won't shut themselves off, the init
scripts 
> take the system down to a point where I get a message to the effect that
it's 
> OK to turn off the power now.  If you're not getting that far, you have
some 
> underlying problem to deal with.
> 
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