Thanks, Rick, Jinm and Kurt,
I have a backup and so dd to another hd. Put the new hd into another box (
totally different
hardware ) and to my surprise, on boot up Anaconda detected the change and
reinstalled the new modules correctly --- no more kernel panic --- I think I
start to fall in love with this distro!
:-)
Auyeung
----- Original Message -----
From: "rickf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jim Conner wrote:
> >
> > I've been told that this works. Haven't used it. Please read
appropriate
> > man pages. YMMV. You will need to add the correct /dev/hd?? to have it
use
> > the correct drive/partition. Read the man pages for any other possible
> > missing options.
> >
> > Step 1: badblocks -o bad_blocks_file
> > Step 2: e2fsck -l bad_blocks_file
> > Note: the -l is a lower case L, doesn't show up nicely in some fonts.
> >
>
> In addtion to this, I've been told that when you start developing
> very many bad blocks on a drive it's time to make sure of your backups
> and investigate the cost of new drives. The drive may be failing.
>
> It would be a very good idea to re-run badblocks on the drive fairly
> often for a while. If you continue to get new badblocks occurring, the
> drive _IS_ failing.
>
> rickf
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