This morning I found time to swap the two memory sticks which did not so;ve the problem. From a friend I just got one 128 Mb stick which he said was okay and I got the same result. So right now I assume that my swap area is corrupted. How do I check and repair that. Also with fcheck? malloc() is the memory allocator. In a C program, malloc() resides in libc and allocates memory for the application. This particular problem appears to be caused by an I/O error while loading a critical program (possibly /sbin/init). <big snip> Lastly, but not likely, you could possibly have a problem with your disk. Remember virtual memory. Physical memory is broken up into pages. It is possible that there was some swapping going on during the load, and there is some corruption in the swap area. On 30 Aug 2002 at 19:36, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

_loaderFileToMem() malloc failed

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fatal IO error 104

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