On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:15, Dave Howorth wrote:
OK. That time I tried several reboots and it locked up at the same place each time. So I switched it off and had lunch. Now it's working again and I'm running some fscks with bad block tests.
It seems to me that the 2.4 kernel shipped with SUSE 9 is not stable on this hardware (unless there's a hardware bug!). Does anybody know of any other 2.4 versions (or compile options) that might help? How stable is the 2.6 kernel that ships with SUSE 9 - is that safe to use for a normal user's desktop machine?
Cheers, Dave
This looks more like a hardware problem, most likely the PS. I had a similar problem recently and it was the PS. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)