The plot thickens - Unable to handle kernel paging request.

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dupuis
Following my previous posts: 'fsck hangs my machine unpredictably'; I've managed to back up a lot of the data from this drive by skipping fsck on boot and pulling the data off over the network. I now want to reinstall debian. When I try to install kernel v 2.4 from the CD I get the message: 'Unab

RE: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Rob Dupuis
Hey guys. Many thanks for all you responses. My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling. I think I'm gonna disable DMA, add the n

RE: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-09 Thread Rob Dupuis
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Monique Y. Herman > Sent: 09 October 2003 22:04 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > > Hi

fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-09 Thread Rob Dupuis
Hi All. My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. When the machine boots fsck is run, and when it gets to some percentage (eg 69.9%) and then I get an msg that says 'Duplicate or bad block in use.' It then proceeds to start a pass for duplicate and bad blocks, and it finds a *lot*