On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 03:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> Have you run memcheck? >> > >> > You mean fsck ? Something runs about every 20 boots and it comes back >> > clean. I haven't specifically run fsck. >> >> I think he means memtest. It's a boot style program which >> checks for common memory problems. > > Yes, memtest and not memcheck. Apologies for the mixup. Getting in here a little late... If your HD is failing, this may be a moot point, but one thing I started doing was having memtest, MHDD, and System Rescue CD images in my /boot partition and created GRUB boot options for them. If anyone is interested on how it's done I'll post some simple instructions. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines