Re: System no longer usable
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:21:07 +0100 (CET)
Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> 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.
>
> 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
I had one do that to me when I had bad memory. Linux would fail duging
boot. Windoze would load and run, then lock up after awhile.
I'd run memtest on it for a few hours and see if it turns anything up.
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