On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:45 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 11:53 AM +0800 10/23/06, Mel wrote: > >I didn't get a response to my last post so I must have done something > >wrong. Let me try again with a different subject. > > > >I am trying to solve a boot problem. > > > >What I think happened was that a series of fast AC power transients > >caused my system to attempt power recover many( don't know how many) > >times quickly. > > > >A file somewhere is corrupt. I cannot boot into > >kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 without getting a panic. > > > >I can boot into kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 with no problem. > > > >Thanks to some help here, I removed and reinstalled > >kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5. > > > >This did not solve the problem. After reinstalling, I still get the > >panic with kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 and kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 still > >boots OK. > > > >What power recovery related file might be corrupt that would affect one > >kernel and not another but not be deleted/replaced with a remove and > >reinstall of the kernel? > > Your filesystem may be damaged. Your /disk/ may be damaged. Boot with > something else (e.g., a bootable CD) and run fsck (e2fsck) on the disk. If > that is not the issue, try reading the whole disk device (dd if=/dev/hd? > of=/dev/null bs=1048576 count=1048576). If that is not the issue, then a > reformat, reinstall, and restore may be in order. That sounds a bit extreme, especially since he said he CAN boot to the kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 with no problem. I hardly think this is hardware or filesystem related except in interaction with the newer kernel. > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >
