On Sun, 13 May 2007, Richard Karhuse wrote:
So as I said in my previous reply I was able to shutdown via the
power button. Now I attempted to power on and enter the bios
set up. Well, guess what? I was able to reboot right away into
centos 5. It seems to be working, but not perfect (time and date
are not correct).
I am trying to follow up your suggestions but have few problems.
Do you have the latest and greatest BIOS for the motherboard
installed? [Also load "Optimal" and/or "Fail-Safe" Defaults (or
what-ever your BIOS calls them, e.g. "Factory Defaults").]
I think I do have the latest, but am not sure.
Explanation: asus site provides two latest BIOS revisions: 0301
for DOS, and 0203 for all OS's. I've got 0203 (according to
dmidecode) so I think this is fine.
When you re-boot up, everything may be OK. Or, you may need
to enter "Rescue Mode" via CD #1 and (re-)install grub to get a
working system. Or, (depending on where it died), re-install all
over again. While in Rescue Mode, check-out your install.log
and syslog files for any hints as to what happened. {Usually when
you die like this, nothing gets written -- but it may tell where it was
when it did freeze-up.}
I would also run "memtest" off CD #1 for a couple of hours to
make certain that memory is working OK, etc.
I rebooted into rescue mode but can't find memtest, only
memtest-setup. According to some reading (oh! it's already
midnight here) I should do:
* reboot again to rescue (because I have mounted fs read-only)
* chroot /mnt/sysimage
* run memtest-setup (to get a memtest86 entry in grub)
* reboot to memtest86 in grub
Is this correct?
Or maybe I should just reboot to centos, yum install memtest and
continue from there?
Just some random things to think about ....
(I've been down the "frustrating" path before and know your "pain"....)
Rich
Thanks so much.
Centos - indeed a community!
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