The diagnostic utility is one that Western Digital has on their web site. I
ran it again and this time had it write "0's" over the entire drive and then
read them, no errors were found. Since this destroyed all data I tried
loading RH6, this went off without a hitch and ran fine. So, then I tried
an upgrade to RH7. The upgrade completed ok but would boot to the logon
screen and then attempt to start "X" but has same problem. There are
sometimes errors reported during the boot process and sometimes it hangs at
various points. But, for now the "Always Happens" error is the one about
gdm already running. Could I have gotten a defective CD from Red Hat?
Seems strange that RH6 works or and RH 7 does not.
MIchael
Michael McLeod wrote:
> Not long after RH 7 was released I did a fresh install on my computer
> (not an Up grade) Everything worked well then about 2 months ago Loadlin
> stopped working, that is, the boot process would hang someplace
> especially when X went to startup. The screen would just flash about
> every 10 seconds and finally display a message something like:
> .../var/run/gdm.pid gdm already running but seems to have been murdered
> mysteriously
> this would be repeated again after about 20 seconds, finally the
> following messaged would be displayed:
> INIT:Id "x" respawnind to fast: disabled for 5 mi.
> I could still boot from Lilo or from disk. Then a few weeks later I
> could not boot from disk only Lilo.
> Since I am still in the experimental stage with Linux I just decided to
> remove and reload the whole program. Well now it won't ever boot from
> disk and only 1/2 the time will it boot from Lilo.
> Linux lives in it's own 2 Gb hard drive, Western Digital, and I have
> run diagnostics on it all is OK. I have reviewed the Cmos settings,
> nothing seems to have changed. I have checked the 128 Meg of ram ant it
> is ok. Winblows works fine on the other Hard drive. What could be
> going on? I'm really stuck, and new to Linux
> Michael
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