Hi Ian
I have had a number of hard lock ups lately - Couldn't even telnet/ping the machine. I really hate having to run e2fsck manually, so I really ought to install an ext3 or reiser file system. If I don't, I'll eventually end up hosing the entire disk....!
The obvious solution is to look at what is causing the kernel to lock up in the first place. But I'm involved in some high risk programming, and expect these things to happen as a result.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 08 November 2001 9:31 pm, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
A couple of days ago I had a major freeze on my Mandrake 8.0 desktop. I was running an mpeg encoder, called appropriately lame, at the time, when the screen just froze. No keyboard response so i was forced to reset.
Only problem was e2fsck did not like one partition and kept freezing itself. So I ran the MD8.0 install disk in rescue mode and found I could manualy mount all the partitions and their contents seemed intact. Running e2fsck with the partitions unmounted found the corrupted partition and fixed it. A reboot and there was my system all intact and functional.
Ain't linux wonderful?
Ian