"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > > Day Brown wrote: > > > > It rather looks like because the Linux kernel is > > more protected, when it is blown, it is blown further. > > What the hell does this mean??? I would be *very* surprised > if your kernel was blown (damaged?). The most likely cause of > your booting problem is some misconfiguration in your filesystem. I mean one that installed ok, ran for some time, then crashed or whatever, and when cold booted again would not boot the os. I remember one that told me to run xfsck or some such, and all that did was give me a longer list of error messages.
For most Newbies, with a single drive on a single system, this is the end of the line. They cannot get online to get help, and the manuals which I have seen dont mention the problem. To say you should have used a 'rescue' disk isnt always useful either. I have seen distros that went all the way thru the install, and then when it got a floppy error, crashed, and wiped out the entire install. So I learned to always try to be sure I had a _perfect_ floppy in the drive before beginning an install. I have also seen 'rescue' disks that didnt, but told me the drive was unreadable and had errors. duh. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
