On Saturday 26 June 2004 05:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I'm having some major problems with my sons 1.3 Duron powered Soyo setup. > He's dual-booting Win98SE and v9.2 of Mandrake off an 80 gig Maxtor HD. > He's got 384 megs of memory. I've had his system dual-booting with Win and > Linux for about 2 years now - no major problems. > > About 2 weeks ago he told me he booted up but couldn't use his mouse. > Logitech optical, USB model. I checked dmesg and there was a complaint > about a USB dependency. I reran "depmod -a" and it seemed to fix it. > > About 3 days ago, he lost sound. He has onboard sound. I went thru the MCC > and tried various things, finally having to force it to change to another > driver and sound was returned. Next bootup, USB mouse services were lost > again. This time, depmod -a did not fix it, complaining about a USB problem > and /lib/2.4.xxx/kernel/sound/drivers/vx not being able to be used because > I (root) didn't have permission. I've never seen or heard of this file > before. So...I changed to that directory. No such file, can't rm it. Yet > depmod -a insists its there. Finally, another failed attempt at depmod -a > resulted in a *huge* list of failed dependencies. So...I attempted to boot > into CD1 and do a rescue. This resulted in a kernel panic. Unable to > proceed. Well, I thought I'll try the trick where you repair the system by > reinstalling, just not picking all the packages that are already installed > so it just fixes the base system. Fails at 2nd stage ramdisk. Well. I've > got 10.0, boxed set, and everything important was backed up so I fdisked > his Linux partition. I tried booting into 10.0 and and it failed, various > times, at various ram disk stages. I tried booting with the 2nd CD and then > switching, got a kernel panic a couple of times, and ram disk failures > others. I tried rescue with disk 1 of 10.0 and got the same failures as > 9.2. During all this time, Lilo was still functioning and we were able to > boot fine into Windows (go figure the luck!). Finally, Lilo now reports a > "time stamp mismatch" and nothing is bootable from his system, not Linux > (even failsafe) or Windows. > > Because its showing the same symptoms with 10.0 and 9.2 (and remember that > 9.2 had previously installed fine on this setup and been running since > 9.2s' release) I'd lean towards a hardware problem. > > Other than that, at this point, I'm at a loss on how to proceed, short of > dumping the HD and getting a new one (its not that old - about 1.5-2 yrs). > > Anyone have any useful suggestions, thoughts or ideas? > > Thanks gang. Ron, did you try swapping out the ram? Sometimes windows will run on faulty ram but linux does not. Been there before. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842
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