On 9/1/07, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for the response, Tim: > > This makes little sense without knowing what partition you removed and > what you mean by "removing" it - did you take it out of /etc/fstab? Did > you actually repartition your disk? What partition was it, what kind was > it (primary, logical, extended) and what was on it? Hopefully we can be > of more assistance with this info.
I removed the partition from /dev/fstab. It is a partition on /dev/sda1, a SATA drive, with about 20% fragmentation. I moved everything off the drive, and will reformat, making sure it is in ext3 or other journaling format. Something was triggering a check every boot. (message saying the partition was not properly mounted---I don't have access to the exact message now). I wonder whether this kind of hardware issue might trigger the Machine Check Exception. Thank you, Alan Davis -Tim > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,