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[green_man]

I have been playing with PhatLinux 3.3, which is a loopback linux that 
runs inside Windows/DOS.
I'm not sure how it works, but I think it exists entirely in RAM, 
although it boots from the HD.
I boot to a DOS prompt, cd to the proper directory, and run the batch 
file that starts Phat Linux.
Linux begins, does file checking or whatever, then when I should have a 
login screen, I get this error:

Init: Id "x" respawning too fast; disabled for 5 min.

It's always done this; I am still able to login as root.
How do I correct this error ?

Unfortunately,this weekend I lost power while it was running.
I had bunch of things running: File Manager, Text editor, Netscape mail 
and browser, modem, etc.
When the electricity came back, I restarted it to see what happened , 
but  Xwindows will not run.
Some kind of error about Fixed Font -1 flashed by, then the above 
message again.
I was able to login and get a dmsg output to a text file [below]. It 
means nothing to me, except for the warning:

EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

Which file do I need to run e2fsck on, and how do I do so, as *there is 
NO DOCUMENTATION whatsoever* included in the installation.

Also, shouldn't the shell prompt display the full path of the current 
directory ?
For example, if I'm in /root/initrd/dos, the prompt should be
root at PhatLinux.PhatBox/root/initrd/dos #
 
and not just
root at PhatLinux.PhatBox/dos #

Dmesg follows:

Linux version 2.2.15-4mdk (root at PhatLinux.PhatBox) (gcc version 
pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Sat Dec 2 07:04:38 EST 2000
Detected 952169743 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1900.54 BogoMIPS
Memory: 223048k/229376k available (1240k kernel code, 412k reserved, 
2584k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K  L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K
CPU: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 02
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb370
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.12)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hd1: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HITACHI CDR-8430, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, 38172MB w/1819kB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
   pII_mmx   :  2217.039 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :  2547.366 MB/sec
   8regs     :  1357.503 MB/sec
   32regs    :  1129.284 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (2547.366 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
 hdb: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 32,check=r,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:42.
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 32,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:42.
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 32764k swap-space (priority -1)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de)
nfsd_fh_init : initialized fhcache, entries=256

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