Hi, i'm running a server with debian woody testing / unstable. Base install with shorewall, nothing else. (2.4.18 bf24 kernel) IDE harddisk (ext3 partitions), SCSI cdrom, ISA SB AWE64 When i recently came home i couldn't access the net. After some checking i found out that my server was down. I thought it was a power cut that had caused this to happen. When i tried to reboot the system it would suddenly shutdown at various points in the startup procedure. After several fruitless tries, it took iso binary 1 and booted from that with rescbf24 root=/dev/hda2. This also failed several times but then i went through the whole startup procedure and i could finally get my server up and running. But apparently, the problem is persistant: it has shutdown several times over the last couple of times and i keep having problems getting to boot my system. I now can't start it up and have to access the net by plugging the server network cable in the network card of my computer. Anyway, the machine previously had suse 7.2 installed on it and there it happened also once or twice. It seems as if something in the kernel or the modules doesn't like the hardware of my server :-) I could remove the soundblast since my server really doesn't need one.
Does anybody know what could cause this (with the limited details i have given. also now i can't access kern.log) and how i could solve this? How could i try to boot it and get the appropriate logs to check what's going on? What logs should i hunt for? I'm thinking of a reinstall with ext2 instead of ext3 to see if this makes any difference since it seems to reboot when it accesses one of the partitions. Could a bad sector of some sort be causing this? I did run a check on all the partitions when i installed this server. Anyway, i'm clueless so any help is appreciated. Thanks for any help, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]