Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Philp
Andre Baron wrote: At 00:01 12/03/99 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-12 Thread SciFyKid
In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file just never ends...) i ment in windows

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-12 Thread Rémi LETOT
At 00:01 12/03/99 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file just never ends...) i ment

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-12 Thread Rémi LETOT
I don't mean to be rude or question whether this really works. I don't have extra space, else I'd try it myself. Can anyone confirm that this works?? No it won't work. You are perfecly right with the problems in dev and the boot sector. What you have to do is use the dd command to make a

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-12 Thread Rémi LETOT
At 15:06 11/03/99 -0800, you wrote: A very good test to see if it's memory or bios-too-"optimized" related is to compile something big (a kernel for example) several times in a row. If your system succeeds to do so without any error, your system can be considered clean on that point and you

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-12 Thread Andre Baron
At 00:01 12/03/99 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file just never ends...) i ment

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Chen
A very good test to see if it's memory or bios-too-"optimized" related is to compile something big (a kernel for example) several times in a row. If your system succeeds to do so without any error, your system can be considered clean on that point and you can start to think about a new hard

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread SciFyKid
In a message dated 3/11/99 3:23:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ? Maybe the disk is starting to go bad. no, but this happens with floppy boot as well. I think it is your RAM. I once had this problem as well. RAM seems to be causing a lot of this kind of

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Jerry Dean
I have sucessfully used a program called Ghost to mirror hard drives. It is made by Symantec but I know Powerquest also makes one. Jeffrey Chen wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Kuraiken wrote: Is this booting from a floppy? Maybe the disk is starting to go bad. no, but this happens with

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then drag the first hard drive icon to the second and let it copy the data Does this actually work?! I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file just never ends...) And

[newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Chen
Hi Guys, I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots just fine. No error once the kernel got

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-10 Thread Robert Weider
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, you wrote: Hi Guys, I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots