On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500
Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Drouhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More
> Info!!!
>
> Hardware messed up...you don't mean like...physical damage, do you? Because
> that's happened before. A week after I got this box the hard drive broke
> down. On tech support for two hours until they could be convinced that
> formatting with the restore discs isn't gonna help, and that there was
> nothing you could do... Shame they didn't let me keep the old hard
> drive...I've always wanted to disect one of those... I have seen a few
> articles about linux on this model. Didn't say anything about locking up.
> And why would the 2.6.3 kernel affect rescue mode off the boot discs?
> Anyway, if it does, would that mean that rescue mode on the v10 discs might
> help?
>
I'm not really sure. At what point on the rescue process did it freeze?
Exactly how far did you get? Were you able to get to the command line?
You may have some hardware conflicts or faulty bios settings. If the
rescue disks freeze your computer, then it's definitely not the kernel's
problem - unless it messed with the hardware in a permanent way. (This
is highly unlikely). I say try the rescue disks again, tell us how far
it gets, then try resetting the bios. Then try everything once more. If
that doesn't work, wait for Mandrake 10 to come out. You can choose
whether you want the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel at installation time.
John
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