At the risk of boring everyone, I report that I copied boot.log and messages from /var/log to floppy and brought them to this machine for study. Still haven't found where the install log is written. Notice that messages has repeated reports of unable to process kernel page file requests. Need to figure out how to check the partitions on the hard drives. Bet there is a utillity that tells all, but so far I rooted in a couple of books with no luck. Choppy <p>At 11:53 AM 7/17/01 -0500, you wrote: <em>>I was close to asking a few friends in for support and doing an <em>>exorcism myself, at least laying on hands and praying. I have <em>>participated in a couple of hairy encounters of the bad kind. Back <em>>in the 70s, I asked my rector if he thought devils could infest <em>>computers. He said he was sure it was so for sailboats....... <em>> <em>>On the happier side I had a car that used to blow a fuse, killing <em>>panel and headlights erratically, every week or two, but not so <em>>consistently I could demonstrate it to a shop. Any time I passed <em>>a shop that with a sign saying electrical work, I brought it in. <em>> <em>>None found the short, which kicked in on hitting an occasional <em>>bump or roughness in the road at night, but not near most of the <em>>bumps. Houston streets have many bumps. <em>> <em>>Finally soldered zip cord at one end to an old fuse and a fuse <em>>holder at the other, put the fuse end where fuses used to blow, <em>>wrapped the cord a few turns around the steering wheel, inserted <em>>a fuse, and kept a bag of fuses at my side. Got quick at <em>>replacing them without slowing down. <em>> <em>>Finally, we attended a teaching group meeting at which a man <em>>spoke about his ministry of praying for cars, for problems that <em>>many mechanics had failed to unravel. Things like a soft drink <em>>cap in a gas tank, producing intermittent stalling, etc. At the end <em>>I asked him to pray over my car. He did, and I never blew <em>>another fuse in the next couple of years I had the car. <em>> <em>>(For those who don't know, I'm an Anglican priest.) <em>> <em>>Choppy <em>> <em>>At 07:31 AM 7/17/01 -0500, you wrote: <em>>>You know....I've been using Linux for nearly 10 years now. I've <em>>>installed and administered it for pay for 4 of them. I've been a <em>>>professional UNIX admin for a total of about 5 years. <em>>> <em>>> <em>>>I have neither seen nor experienced *ANYTHING* Choppy has mentioned in <em>>>the last two weeks in my entire career. Have you considered bringing <em>>>that machine down to the local Pentecostal church for a good excorcism? <em>>> <em>>> <em>>>Jerald Sheets <em>>>Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator <em>>>Our Lady of the Lake RMC <em>>>5000 Hennesy Blvd. <em>>>Baton rouge, LA 70808 <em>>>225.765.8734 <em>>> <em>>> <em>>> <em>>> <em>>>On 16 Jul 2001 22:33:32 -0500, Chopin Cusachs wrote: <em>>> > <em>>> > Last lines on the screen are the hard drives and <em>>> > CD drives. <em>>> > <em>>> > I've tried booting to SPBLinux, but need to read <em>>> > two floppies, so that will be possible <em>>> > when I get the floppy drive working correctly. <em>>> > <em>>> > I should then be able to view the install log, but <em>>> > I didn't remember to write down where it is written. <em>>> > <em>>> > I can boot a DOS diskette with the PC-Config <em>>> > program, which runs fine, but doesn't understand <em>>> > a Linux file system. <em>>> > <em>>> > Choppy <em>>> > <em>>> > At 07:20 PM 7/16/01 -0700, you wrote: <em>>> > <em>>> > >All the way through the list of devices? What's the <em>>> > >last few lines on the screen when it hangs? <em>>> > > <em>>> > > > Tried reset several times, with the same result. <em>>> > > <em>>> > >I've gone through similar experiences myself when I <em>>> > >first started installing Linux. Sometimes it took <em>>> > >swapping distributions. You might want to compare <em>>> > >results to booting a mini-distribution (floppy based). <em>>> > > <em>>> > >John Hebert <em>>> > <em>>> > <em>>> > ================================================ <em>>> > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>> > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>> > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>> > your subscription information. <em>>> > ================================================ <em>>> <em>>> <em>>>================================================ <em>>>BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>>Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>>Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>>your subscription information. <em>>>================================================ <em>> <em>> <em>>================================================ <em>>BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>your subscription information. <em>>================================================ <p>================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. 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