Re: Help! System hosed.

[mshapiro@sunlitsurf.com (Marc Shapiro)]

Greg,

You wrote:
> 
> Try a LiveCD. Then beatup the machine a bit see if it is heat related or
> Video is bust or some such.

Video is 'on board' the motherboard, so it is new, not from the old system.

I have an old copy of Knoppix, but it can't handle the new video, apparently, and will not start X.  I tried that yesterday.

> If it survives, make a directory like: /real
> 
> Mount your root partition on that then all of the child filesystems on
> that. Like /real/usr/, /real/home, /real/tmp etc...
> 
> The chroot into that system:
> 
> cd /real
> chroot . bin/bash
> 
> Diagnose from there and see what happens. Knoppix has memtest86 as a
> boot option, you might wanna test it as your memory might have been
> damaged too.

Also new memory, since the old MB used PC133 and the new one uses DDR333.
The only things moved from the old box to the new one are two HDs and the FD.  Everything else is new.

I just rebooted after a kernel panic and, again, had to run fsck manually.  I am beginnin to wonder if my HD is going flaky.  

-- 
Marc Shapiro