On Sunday 16 December 2001 15:08, Lee enunciated: > 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 and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any > opinions?
Looks like a new HD time, I would not have waited so long as its surely going to kark it at some stage totally. The bigfoot was a wierd exercise by Quantum for IBM, it never took off in the market place. I have replaced quite a few in the last 2 years............. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
