Re: HELP: can't boot into woody due to HD problem

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:04:51PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "PS" == Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA > PS> off for the check. > PS> > > No, I am about to now. How do I turn off DMA for the chec

Re: HELP: can't boot into woody due to HD problem

"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > > "PS" == Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA > PS> off for the check. > PS> > > No, I am about to now. How do I turn off DMA for the check ? There > doesn't seem to be an opti

Re: HELP: can't boot into woody due to HD problem

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:40:19PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I came home from work to find my debian box (woody) frozen - nothing was > displaying on the monitor, keyboard/mouse weren't doing anything either. > > I rebooted the system, during the startup the various partitions were > being