On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm installing gentoo 1.4 on a dual 600Mhz PIII machine. It detects both cpu's, but > when I try to > initialize the partitions: > > mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 > mkswap /dev/sda2 > mke2fs -j /dev/sda3 > > > when I run mke2fs -j on sda3, the computer/keyboard freezes, and I have to reboot the > machine.
See if 'badblocks -sv /dev/sda3' completes successfully (and without reporting errors). If it does, try 'badblocks -svw /dev/sda3' for a destructive read-write test. This will take a while. You can also, if you want, check the entire disk by using /dev/sda as the device. If it's a destructive test, this will wipe out everything including the partition table. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
