Lee wrote: % After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 suddenly % shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean the % screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On % reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux % partition couldn't be found. Took the opportunity to upgrade to e2.4. % After two weeks it failed to bootup. Error message said something was % cycling too fast and it would have to shut down for five minutes. % Never booted up. Upgraded to w3.1. Lasted about three days before did % the same thing. Boot and rescue disks failed to boot system. Shifted to % Mandrake 7.0. After a month failed to boot. Error message said reading 1 % bit in swap sync. Moved to Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 same results. The system is % a Mainboard running a 200mmx Pentium with 64Meg memory and a Quantum 4 % gig big foot hd. Only thing I can think of for this is that the hd may % be going bad and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any % opinions?
My take is the HD is toast; failing that, the MB is toast. Kurt -- Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
