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Shawn wrote: | on boot I get | | segmentation violation 0x24e3d4 sleeping for 30 seconds | | is this likely disk failure? none of the kernels I have will work. | | I did a system integrity check and was required to run fsck? manually | | but I really wasn&t sure what to do so gave up | | Ill try knoppix to try to get some data back | | any other suggestions?
Yeah boot using your first install CD with the "linux rescue" option
and run fsck on your hdd partition from there. Your filesystem is messed up, which can easily explain things segfaulting. Maybe fsck can recover it for you.
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