On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Givin this situation, 2 identical machines, one that boots and one > that doesn't, after doing the obvious checks (making sure cables are > seated right and that sort of thing) I would start switching things > out from one to the other. Memory first (then test the boots) cd-roms, > then processors...but that's just me.
What's odd is that it's not a "doesn't boot" but more of a "sort of doesn't boot". It runs memtest just fine. It also boots FreeDOS just fine. What it doesn't boot is linux. Or rather it doesn't complete booting Linux. I get "loading kernel ......." followed by reboot. Like you, I am suspecting hardware. I've checked cables and have tried swapping the RAM to no effect. What I haven't checked for yet is capacitor plague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague One of the symptoms describes my experience: Spontaneous reboots Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
