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Re: System no longer usable



On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Something strange happened to my system last night.
> When I woke up this morning, the machine was completely
> locked up.  I cannot boot any linux kernel.  I have
> been rolling my own kernels for a while, and the
> machine has a 2.6.3 and 2.6.4, neither of which will
> boot.  It won't boot Knoppix, either from the CD-RW
> or the DVD-ROM drive.  The machine is running Sid.
> 
> The strange thing is that WinXP boots OK (I have it
> installed in /dev/hda1 so that I can still play
> gamees).  WinXP seems to work fine even with the
> system heavily loaded.
> 

It may be related to the BIOS locking the system when Debian is
installed that I reported about 30 min ago in this list. Who knows.



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