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Re: Corrupted Kernel...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Thu Nov 5 16:43:57 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:41:33 -0000
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well files go bad often.. if you have recurring problems.. I'd seriously
look into moving the computer or replacing some of it's hardware because you
might have something that's terminally bad...
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Baichtal <edwardb@AirLink.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 9:00 PM
Subject: Corrupted Kernel...?
>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.
>
>--------------------------
>Edward Baichtal
>edwardb@AirLink.com
>http://www.airlink.com
>
>
>
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