[techtalk] Hangs on init - which bit of hardware ?

[Steve Howes]

*** Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I don't think the first made the
post :-)

Hi all,

I am new to the list and a newbie to Linux.

6 months ago I installed SuSE v6.1 on an AMD K6-2 400MHz/96M RAM/Quantum
6.4Gb CX IDE HD.  A month or so ago I crashed it - loosing patience with
a program that was hogging the HD and CPU.  Anyway after hitting hard
reboot I was not able to get back into the system - it
would always hang just after setting the CMOS clock.

I had just made the decision that I was going to move to the GNOME
desktop from KDE and so took this situation as an opportunity to install
a publishers edition
of RH6.0.  Another no go it would hang during init. at the point of
setting up syslog.  I attempted to install a publishers edition of
Slackware 3.5 - same
problem.  Attempted a trial of Corel Linux  - same problem (if my memory
serves me well).  But . . .  but . . . Was able to install a publishers
edition of
Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. I have stuck with this for the last month or so
but now have the finances to fix my problem, which as I see it (and my
knowledge is limited :-) is a hardware problem, either the HD or the
motherboard/CPU.

As I still want to move to GNOME and start programming with GTK and
Glade.

During all the installations I did notice once a problem that one of the
distro's didn't like my my /var partition but but was OK once I moved
the partition,
HD has been scanned for bad blocks , RAM memory modules have been
swapped in and out with no problems.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

--
Steve    Cheltenham, UK
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In love and Light we are
In darkness we are no less



-- 
Steve - Cheltenham, UK
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In love and light we are
In darkness we are no less