This is a wierd one! I have a dual boot (WinXP\Debian) and until
last week both worked fine. No change was made to the Debian system and it
crashed while I was creating a .xinitrc file. Upon rebooting the system would
get stuck (halt) at various times before it could get to the prompt. Sometimes
it would say hda: lost interrupt (though I've read all the post about this and
tried playing with the BIOS's APM to no avail), sometimes it would get stuck
at the agp read (I've tried 3 differnt video cards) and sometimes it spits out
a CPU error saying it can't swap. The odd thing is this happens with any
kernel (tomtbrt, the boot I made when I first installed woody 3 months ago,
the Debian boot CD, as well as both my hdd kernels!). I brought it to a
firend's place and ran fschk (fixed some Inodes), badblocks (nothing) as well
as compiling and installing the kernel again. I was able to boot off his
machine (with my hdd as the primary drive no prob), but when I came home and
tried it on mine same problem! My MB is an abit BP6 and has had plently
working Linux versions and nothing was changed for over a month on the system.
I've tried playing with BIOS settings, inserting and removing parts (ram,
cpus, video cards) nothing works. I ran Tufftest pro on the system and it
passes with no problem and windows XP has had absolutely no problems. I can't
even sucessfully boot off a disk to format the partition!?!
Any
ideas?
Thanks
Eddie
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