On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:29:41 -0700 "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That was all I saw at the console besides the transaction #'s. > > I was unable to open any virtual terminals or escape it at all. I will try and see if there is any more data at the end. > > I am still pretty Linux green. Is there something else that I can provide that would help? > I ran through /var/log/messages and saw nothing. Before it choked it will have dumped a set of messages indicating ATA error information to the system. That may have scrolled off before it died, and if the disk failed then it couldn't write it to the log either. Drives keep their own failure information log usually (partly because of this) and there are low level tools to access the information: open a terminal window do su - [root password] smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda and it will dump the data for the first disk. That will show you various stats including an overall health self assessment and also usually the last errors that occurred. Those are the important and useful bit.
