On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 17:38 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I just tried to update that machine. I shut it down and I tried to > restart and that is what I get. It runs windows Ok, so I conclude > that some update broke it. Ram is fine, why? Windows does not > complain. Disk is fine, why? Windows does not complain and disk does > not screech/scratch/ or output weird sounds. This is one of the > machines that the little annoying program said that one or more hard > disks are failing by the way :(, It was working, it worked since late > March and before. Can the disk really be failing? only on the Fedora > side and not on the Windows Side? This would be really sad and I > would get feelings to just nuke Fedora and leave the evil empire > installed to the whole disk and hope that it truly fails and then I > can conclude that the utility was right and apologize to all for > doubting "One or more hard disks are failing" :(, but the laws of > probability tell me otherwise. I have a hard drive that > scratches/screams/(I can hear sounds > coming from it) for 3 years and it is still running ? This is a > weird case, till that happens in this disks case, I will conclude that > the utility was right, but for now it is wrong and this system is > indeed nuked, how sad :( Sorry, looks like I was wrong there - by the other comments it is just a bug in the kernel. I was fooled by the error messages (they're usually the kind you get when something's *really* broken). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
