In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>  I have recently installed redhat 5.0.  When I logged in as a user, my computer is 
>accidently power off.  When I turned on the computer again, the Linux no longer work. 
> The message on the screen is 
>  /dev/hda4 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. 
>
>  and the system halt.

Are you sure the system halted?  It seems very unlikely.

What the message is telling you is that your system was not shut down
cleanly (specifically the discs weren't unmounted) so it's checking the
file system for integrity.  Give it a few minutes and it will almost
certainly finish booting.

>As a newbie to Linux, I don't know what to do.

Just wait a bit.

HTH
John
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