Day Brown wrote: > > > The most likely cause of your booting problem is > > some misconfiguration in your filesystem. > > I mean one that installed ok
What do you mean by one? Kernel? Filesystem? Application? > ran for some time, then crashed And the crash was caused by...? Not Linux, I'll wager. More likely a flakey application or silly newbie mistake. > or whatever, and when cold booted again would not boot > the os. Naturally, if a headstrong newbie accidently wipes something important, the problem will be permanent. That's one reason why BasicLinux runs on a ramdisk. The newbie can bugger up the ramdisk filesystem as much as he wants. There is no lasting damage. > I remember one that told me to run xfsck or some such This is not a kernel message. It's probably being generated by one of your startup scripts. It would appear your kernel booted just fine. > For most Newbies, with a single drive on a single system, Who says most newbies have only a single drive on a single system? > this is the end of the line. They cannot get online to get > help, Of course they can. The turn on their Windows computer and run Internet Explorer. > To say you should have used a 'rescue' disk isnt always > useful either. Not guilty. I didn't say you should use a rescue disk. That was someone else. Personally, I think a rescue disk is a loaded gun. Give one to a newbie and anything could happen. Cheers, Steven 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
