-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-03-29 at 22:17 -0400, j.e.perry@cox.net wrote:
I have a desktop with an Asus K8V-X SE motherboard. It recently stopped booting, saying the hard drive failed smart tests.
But when I try to go into the rescue system to save my data, the installer goes through the warning to save my data and replace the drive,
The installer tells you what?? I don't understand how it can tell you that.
then hangs when it tries to load via82cxxx, even when I give the kernel parameter "brokenmodules=via82cxxx", as the installer advises during boot.
Are you trying to install or boot a rescue system? The procedure would depend on the exact type of problem smart have detected; but typically it would be to boot any rescue CD in text mode, and use dd_rescue to copy all that HD into images on another HD. Once the images were copied and safe, it would be the time to run tests on the possibly broken HD, not before.
So, is it safe to say my motherboard is broken, and the hard drive probably ok? Or are the problems independent, implying that both broke at about the same time?
Probably independent, unless the IDE chipset is involved. Perhaps the DVD is bad. There was a problem with the 10.3 DVD rescue system, some bad bug. I don't know which bug exactly. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH8Ek5tTMYHG2NR9URAn1RAJ979K8z3uYDuxKOwSBNn3t+XKmwGACdHvCK Z9Y1sCMuVP8IgddSg38SAdI= =Mp52 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org