On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Brent Foor <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a strange issue with an older pc someone brought me to work on. It > has xp on it and i get a bsod on boot. I pop in a xp disk to try to repair > it and to my surprise is get a bsod on that too. So i figure the > drive controller is shot. Just as an experiment i put in fedora 12 and the > damn thing booted fedora... slowly. I'm not really looking for help but does > anyone know how that is even possible. Is linux just that much more > forgiving to IO errors? > Foor
In short, yes. A couple years ago I had this situation and managed to track it down to a bad memory module when someone here suggested I run the memtest86 option on an Ubuntu live CD. Give that a shot and see. Turns out Linux detects and blacklists the bad memory sectors so that it can continue to use the okay sections of the flawed memory chips, or some such thing. Simón _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
