Hi All, is memtest86 included in the install by chance..? smartctl -l error/dev/hda from the cli, yes..? Cheers. P.S. Someone mentioned perhaps a faulty configuration, and deleting all gnome files in the home/<user> folder...good idea..? Mark Sargent. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Wilkinson Sent: 2004?11?11? 9:31 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Nautilis Continually Crashing @ Boot Mark Sargent wrote: > my sharemate suggests that if the 2 installs, RH9 and Fedora Core 2 were on > the same drive/partitions(which they were), it could be a bad sector > problem..? Does this sound feasable to anyone here..? Cheers. It's possible, but unlikely. I seem to be missing a couple of messages in the exchange, but it sounds as though the FC2 install was a fresh install, with newly formatted filesystems. In that case, any troublesome blocks should have been mapped out by the disk hardware when FC2 was installed, and something new was written over the failing blocks (and if nothing's been written to a block, then Linux won't care what's in it). That's unless the disk is out of spare sectors. Use smartctl -l error /dev/hda to see if the drive is reporting errors. If it is, don't trust it. But it sounds much more likely that you've got a dodgy memory subsystem. Use memtest86 to check. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "In these troubled times, it's always refreshing to @westexe.demon.co.uk | see a major company concentrating on vital issues. | It would be even more refreshing if Compaq tried it | for once." -- The Inquirer -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
