On Thursday 01 February 2001 12:44 am, regarding [newbie] Emergency?, you
said:
> If anyone can tell, the ip from which this comes is different than
> usual.
> Hence my apparent emergency.
> I tried to turn on my main computer , running Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.1
> Beta2,
> earlier tonight...well, alright, several times over the past few hours.
>
> Now I can't get by "Verifying DMI pool data....".
>
> The next line begins an unending full screen matrix of {01 01}.
> The clock ( I *can* enter setup of BIOS) now reads 01/01 for a date, and
> as of an hour or so ago apparently reset to this date.
>
> I initially feared hardware...if it is and someone has seen something
> like it please let me know.
>
> Else does anyone have any ideas as to how to get to my hard drives on
> the "broken" box?.
>
> Thank you in advance!
> --
> -michael-
Thanks to my emergency boot disk!
--
-michael-
