In short one of Linux's flaws is that it _can_ operate on systems that other OSes could not use. Just like high school science class you need to isolate issues. Will it work when using a USB CD/DVD drive faster than on the IDE chipset? By using OOBM (out of band management) you can learn a lot about a system. It is also a good idea to do a visual inspection of the hardware. That big black spot with smoke all around it could be the issue.
~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Simón Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
