[97886] in RedHat Linux List
Corrupted Kernel...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Baichtal)
Thu Nov 5 16:17:19 1998
From: "Edward Baichtal" <edwardb@AirLink.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:14:39 -0800
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All of a sudden I had a kernel panic that completely locked up my Linux
system. When I power-cycled the machine, LILO came up, it started
uncompressing the kernel, and then suddenly said the kernel was corrupt, and
gave me "--System Halted."
I fixed this before, the same way, so decided to do it again...
I booted off of the RedHat 5.0 boot floppy + supplemental, mounted the hard
drive, went to the /boot directory. I copied vmlinuz-2.0.35-2 to
vmlinuznew. Renamed the current kernel to vmlinuz-2035old and renamed
vmlinuznew to vmlinuz-2.0.35-2. Then I rebooted.
Everything booted up as normal. I thought for sure I had just found a bad
track on the hard drive and this old copy of the kernel was sitting on it.
But the reason I copied it and used it, was because the file size was the
exactly the same as it should be (I have a second Linux system to compare
with).
Like I said, I've done this before to clear up this problem. The machine
has booted fine, I logged in, looked in the /boot directory and the
vmlinuz-2.0.35-2 is still there with the original compile date, and the
vmlinuz-2035old I had created is no longer there...
Someone please explain to me why I would experience that phenomenon with the
file I copied disappearing? Also, why would what I did work? I don't like
this weird, mysterious stuff happening that I don't have a solid solution
for... could it be a bad hard drive? Or are there known problems with this
kernel, or something in 5.0?
I'm running RedHat 5.0 on a Pentium 120mhz, 64megs of RAM, two Adaptec 2940
controllers, and an IBM 2gig HD, and kernel 2.0.35.
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Edward Baichtal
edwardb@AirLink.com
http://www.airlink.com
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