Subject: Re: Really Bad Crash
From: Ben Stanley (bds02@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 19:04:14 MST
I'm wondering whether you have a hardware fault or whether your kernel
image has become corrupted. Can you boot of a Linux CD? Does it do the
same thing? Does it misbehave if you boot into MacOS?
Ben.
David Chart wrote:
> My Linux installation seems to have died.
>
> Shortly after start-up, even if I do nothing, I get the following
> message:
>
> Machine check in kernel mode.
> Caused by (from SRR1=41030): Transfer error ack signal
>
> At that point, all input devices are dead, which means I have to do a
> hard reboot, which does the root filesystem no good at all.
>
> Any suggestions that *won't* involve reinstalling my root partition
> welcome. (I can reinstall if necessary -- home is on a separate
> partition -- but it would be annoying.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> David Chart
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