On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:43:34AM -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2004 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 that won't. The ACPI info I've been able to find is grossly out of date, and 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. > > -- > Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 > http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
