On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > This is somewhat more of a hardware question but it might interest someone > here. > > I was installing (with the pci/ide disks) on a system that has very been > running 2.1 for 9 or 10 months (I built it when I loaded 2.1 on it, so its > recent hardware western digital ide hd, asus p5a, k6-2 450), went through > it, rebooted, and was in dselect picking which packages to install. I was > interupted and had to go away for a few hours, when I came back, I didn't > quite realize at what step I was at in the install, and so I noticed the > 2.2.17pre6 kernel image, and thought, oh I'd like that too, and selected it. > > So halfway through installing the packages, it replaced the kernel, and > still not thinking about what I was doing, moved the modules directory and > hit Y to install the new kernel. Then it continues installing the other half > of the packages. > > Almost did that is. It began to get drive write errors, and quite shortly > the system locked up. > > I had to cut the power, and start again. But when I began the install over > again, even rewrote the partition table, etc, I kept getting the same write > errors from the harddrive. I then formated the disk with and old dos > bootdisk, and still got the errors when reinstalling. I then rebooted from > the rescue disk, and did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda and wiped the disk > totally. made one big partition, fscked it, and did a read check, but stil > got the same write errors during an install attempt. > > Pissed, I went to bed, and got up in the morning and the install everything > went fine. > > I can only assume being powered off for 7 or 8 hours caused whatever was > wrong to go away. Is this reasonable? Is there something on the drive, a > buffer of somekind, that could have been hosed by the kernel-crash that was > able to survive a 30second power off, but went away during the long > powerdown?
Maybe your hard drive get too hot?? I don't know, but this can be a reason, so in the 7-8 hours, it got cold another time and worked fine. Try to get your system up several hours and look what happens. Bye! > > The last thing to ask me about is hardware, so I'm rather puzzeled. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
