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.
The machine is an Athlon XP 2500+, nForce2 mobo.
Here is the end of the boot messages where it locks
up:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /usr/local type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /home type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /var/lib/systemimager type xfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
Starting hotplug subsystem (runlevel S): inputkernel driver evdev already
loadedkernel driver evdev already loaded
kernel driver evdev already loaded
pci
It just ends up with a blinking cursor after the "pci."
The machine is then totally hard locked. If anyone
can provide me some pointers I would really appreciate
it.
-Roberto