On Sunday 16 December 2001 0:08 am, Lee wrote: > After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 suddenly > shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean the > screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On > reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux > partition couldn't be found. Took the opportunity to upgrade to e2.4. > After two weeks it failed to bootup. Error message said something was > cycling too fast and it would have to shut down for five minutes. > Never booted up. Upgraded to w3.1. Lasted about three days before did > the same thing. Boot and rescue disks failed to boot system. Shifted to > Mandrake 7.0. After a month failed to boot. Error message said reading 1 > bit in swap sync. Moved to Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 same results. The system is > a Mainboard running a 200mmx Pentium with 64Meg memory and a Quantum 4 > gig big foot hd. Only thing I can think of for this is that the hd may > be going bad
Ya think? :o) >and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any > opinions? > You're not one to take a hint........ :-) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 12/17/01 11:42 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
