I am not sure what you are referring to here.
We had a power outage and I was all worried because
everyone talks about what happens when you don't
cleanly boot out of Linux, but it came back up fine.
It forces a 'scan' of the Linux partitions, but they come
back 'passed'.
My Jim has had the same experiences.
Granted we both have been in Linux for probably a lot
shorter time than most of you have been...me a month or
two and Jim for almost a year....but we have not seen this
on either Jim's RedHat 6.0 or my Mandrake 7.0
We sometimes lose power here with electrical storms.
What situation does it have to be for it not to come back?
Bambi
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Endries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] future distro ideas
>
> Here's my "two cents worth":
>
> As much as I dislike Windows, I can always count on Windows
> coming back from this kind of situation. It will complain, run
> scandisk, and come back up. You might have some application
> files corrupted, but at least the OS will run.
>
> Bruce Endries
> Bruce Endries Consulting
> (607) 433-2677
>
> ----
> I'll throw in my $.01 worth...
>
> You've merely been lucky.
>
> Windows System files are more readily rendered corrupt, since often they are
> held open.
> (I won't go into the details concerning erroneous IDE/SCSI write ops during
> abnormal outages..)
>
> For a true point of comparison though, don't compare Linux to Windows,
> rather to NT.
>
> Try killing power on NT a few times...
>
> -JMS
