Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

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On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.

Please do !

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