sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Warwick Brown
heya peeps, ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any resolve, ive used splack, suse, debian, aurora, with no joy, and kernels from 2.4

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Warwick Brown
tbh it looks like you have lost some vital system binaries, your best bet is to boot off the rescue disk, back up yer data files and reinstall, but make sure u bad block check the disks when u reformat them, coz lappies do get bounced around a fair bit, so disk damage shouldnt be ruled out rega

Re: fsck on a mounted disk?

2003-03-11 Thread Warwick Brown
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 3:28 pm, Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello, > > I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to > run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only > accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior & > keyboard, is