Hi Gordon, Thanks for your advice.
At 08:04 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > 1) > > # e2fsck -c /dev/hda6 > > e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > /dev/hda6 is mounted. > > > > WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause > > SEVERE filesystem damage. > > > > Do you really want to continue (y/n)? (no) > >Boot to single user mode first, and remount the disk read only: >telinit 1 >mount / -o remount,ro >e2fsck -c /dev/hda6 What are the hot keys toggling between text and graphic mode. I need to type "single linux" in text mode at start. Ctrl + c did not work. Boot disk disallow me to boot in single user mode. Thanks B.R. Stephen > > 2) > > # e2fsck -c /dev/hda > >You should only need to run e2fsck on hda6. However, if you want to test >the whole drive for errors, boot to single user mode and run badblocks >directly (rather than from e2fsck): >telinit 1 >mount / -o remount,ro >badblocks /dev/hda > > > What will be the proper commands to check > > > > 1) hard disc > >as above > > > 2) Video card > >dunno. There's an X benchmarking tool out there somewhere, but I can't >remember what it's called for the life of me... > > > 3) cdrom > > 4) cdwriter > >none that I know of. Perhaps you could 'md5sum' the drive with one of the >Red Hat discs in it, and compare the result to the MD5SUM's they publish >for their ISO's. > > > >Now I have memtest86 downloaded from Internet. > >Memory is a fairly common problem, even on new computers. Run that >sometime soon (maybe overnight, to be sure :) > > > >How to test the processor by compiling the kernel. Which > > >software/commands have to apply ? > >Get one of Red Hat's kernel-<version>.src.rpm and: >rpm --rebuild kernel-<version>.src.rpm > >Again, that's something that you could run overnight for a good burn-in >test: > >while rpm --rebuild kernel-<version>.src.rpm ; do : ; done > >If it's still running in the morning, there shouldn't have been any >problems. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
