On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:33:50 -0600
Terry Eck
Is it possible I'm having possible trouble with my hard drive? Could this be the reason for the kernel panic during fsck?
Yes, it could be bad blocks. You should boot from the SuSE rescue system again and run: e2fsck -f -c <device> on all your partitions excluding swap. If you are using a kernel that support ext3, I would also suggest converting all your ext2 partitions to ext3.
If the kernel panic happens again what should I make note of in order to help determine the cause of the panic?
Mount the partiton that /var is on and look at /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log/messages. Hopefully they will give you some clue. Charles -- "The move was on to 'Free the Lizard'" -- Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)