I demand that Unruh may or may not have written...

> "Klang" <gclegg@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>> Have a box with P4, 1G RAM, 60 Gig HDD dual booting Linux Mint and Debian
>> Etch 4.0 with GRUB.

>> Have had a major crash.

>> Computer worked fine in the morning but later in the day I powered up and
>> got the GRUB screen showing Mint and Etch selection menu as per normal.

>> Tried to boot into Etch, which I use normally and after some scrolling
>> text in a console the system froze with a kernel panic indication.
[snip; repeatable, even when booting from CD]

> It is a hardware problem. Almost certainly motherboard-- maybe memory. Now
> if you actually told us what that kernel panic message was....

Include whatever triggered the panic; chances are that it's an "oops" message
with a register dump and stack backtrace. If you can possibly capture the
kernel log on another computer, you should...

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...netconsole.txt
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...al-console.txt

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