On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:30 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:14 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:59 +0000, tokyoi@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > > > >[...] I ordered a new hard drive that should arrive tomorrow in case it's a > > > >hardware problem. My motherboard or BIOS may also have something to do > > > >with it, but I'm not sure. Right now my system is up and running > > > >because I built a boot floppy. But I see another kernel update waiting > > > >to be installed. I hesitate to download it because I don't know what > > > >kind of mess it will make with my system. > > > > > > > > I've been updating six FC6 machines (One Intel 32-bit, one AMD 32-bit, > two Athlon 64s, one Athlon 64/X2 and one Opteron 1210) since FC6 came > out and have never had a grub corruption issue. I suspect hardware at > your end. Were these fresh installs? I did an upgrade from FC4. That probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but you never know. All I know is that I now doubt that my hard drive is the problem. It's working fine now. GRUB boots. About the only thing I can think of that I did was turn on SATA channel 2 in the BIOS (was off because I only have 1 SATA drive), and changed drive boot order in the BIOS so the SATA drive is first in the list. I have an IDE drive on as well that I use for nightly rsync backups, but it's not bootable as far as I know. > Your drive was questionable, as you found out. You may have a bad RAM > stick (pop your sticks out, reseat them and run memtest86) or your power > supply may be getting weak (slap on a DMM and check it). You'd be > amazed at how weird a machine can get if the power supply is dying. My power supply died several months ago, so I replaced it with a new Antec one. So I doubt that's it. I haven't run memtest86 recently. In terms of hardware, the only thing I really suspect is my motherboard. More specifically, the BIOS. So I guess it's technically a software issue. I have a new hard drive now, so as soon as I figure out how to mirror my old one onto the new one (it's identical in brand and size, just has more cache) I may just use that one as the primary drive and use my old one as a backup. I wish I knew how to better test the BIOS or power supply. Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The Navy's a bunch of wimps! MY job's an adventure! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
