Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:11:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:36:52PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > 
> > I actually had a suspiciously similar problem recently.  A couple of
> > times, everything just froze.  The power button was the only thing
> > that would respond.  memtest86+ showed no problems.  I figured it
> > might be a bad block in swap, so I ran the START self-diagnostics on
> > the drive.  The only effect that had was to do something bad to the
> > drive R/W head, reminding me that I really should be doing backups.
> 
> so IOW, don't do that? ;)

NONONO.  IOW, make a backup.

-- hendrik