> I have a Gateway 2000 9500 laptop, and have successfully installed RH > 7.1. A couple of nights ago, I left the laptop logged into KDE, and > went to do something else, and when I returned, the screen was blank. > I tried to get it to wake up using the mouse and keyboard, but it > wouldn't. I ended up shutting off the power. > > The problem occurred when I restarted it. LILO was doing its thing, > and "Loading Linux" came up and went through its "dots", but when the > loading of initrd began, a couple of "dots" in, I got a "crc error - > System halted" message. I tried restarting again, and it booted fine. > > Since then, this has happened intermittently. Any ideas or > suggestions? > > Thanks. > > Joe
First try the usual checks: download and run memtest86 run a full read "badblocks" of all partitons run "rpm -V kernel" & "rpm -Va" (you'll get a lot of output to interpret) -Cheers -Andrew -- MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list