On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:21:07 +0100 (CET) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something strange happened to my system last night. > When I woke up this morning, the machine was completely > locked up. I cannot boot any linux kernel. I have > been rolling my own kernels for a while, and the > machine has a 2.6.3 and 2.6.4, neither of which will > boot. It won't boot Knoppix, either from the CD-RW > or the DVD-ROM drive. The machine is running Sid. > > The strange thing is that WinXP boots OK (I have it > installed in /dev/hda1 so that I can still play > gamees). WinXP seems to work fine even with the > system heavily loaded. > > The machine is an Athlon XP 2500+, nForce2 mobo. > > Here is the end of the boot messages where it locks > up: > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /usr/local type xfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev)/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /home type > xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on > /var/lib/systemimager type xfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs > (rw) Starting hotplug subsystem (runlevel S): inputkernel driver evdev > already loadedkernel driver evdev already loaded > kernel driver evdev already loaded > pci > > It just ends up with a blinking cursor after the "pci." > The machine is then totally hard locked. If anyone > can provide me some pointers I would really appreciate > it. > > -Roberto I had one do that to me when I had bad memory. Linux would fail duging boot. Windoze would load and run, then lock up after awhile. I'd run memtest on it for a few hours and see if it turns anything up. -- Nimda - Innovative Microsoft peer-to-peer software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
