[NTLUG:Discuss] now Ive done it...[the neverending story]

[Bug Hunter]

  this smells like a failure of RAM.  try removing ram sticks/ moving them
around.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, alh wrote:

> > Lo, on Tuesday, 25 April, 2000, Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com did write:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > oh, ok, you can't get back into the box.  you'll have to boot with the
> > > rescue disk.  If you won't lose much I would suggest reinstalling.
> >
> > You can also reboot, and at the LILO prompt, type
> >
> > linux init=/bin/bash
> >
> this still failed on mingetty
> but it gave me the idea to try the stock kernel
> that failed on init as well...but differently
> 
> INIT:PANIC: Segmentation Violation at 0x804b908! Sleeping for 30 Seconds
> 
> each successive boot gives more and varied errors until
> the kernel wont even load now...it fails with strange things like
> CPU=1
> 000xxxfff 0000 fffff
> 
> and more like that
> what is going on
> is it hardware failure?
> do I need to worry about investing the time into a reinstall?
> I am now trying to copy my home to a non-boot drive
> >
> > > do you still have the executable /sbin/mingetty?  Did permissions get
> > > screwed up?  Does " rpm --verify mingetty" return any errors?  Are you
> > > sure no packages were installed on the hard drive you removed?
> 
> I removed no hardrives
> 
> and all my install partitions are on one drive so the other drives dont
> affect programs just my storage space
> 
> 
> 
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