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

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.

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 an

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 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...) >>

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

1999-03-11 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...) An

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

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 inter

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 har

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Chen
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 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 intermittent problems. Also, o

RE: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Jeff Watkins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Weider > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 9:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, you wrote: > > Hi Guys, >

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Philp
Jeffrey Chen 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 just fi

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 boot