[plug] Technical Assistance

[Mark Bailey]

Thanx Matt,
I understand what you mean but I really would like
to try and avoid that if I can.

It is not an old kernel. It is Redhat 6.1.

I wish to try and upgrade to 6.2 to see if it 
rectified anything.

However, you suggested trying your Matrox
video card the other day and I am happy to
give that a go as well.

I should probably bring it Monday night anyway
and see where it leads.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kemner [mailto:zombie at wasp.net.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2000 11:55 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Technical Assistance


On Tue, 16 May 2000 mbailey at ois.com.au wrote:

> In boot sequence get message,
> modprobe not an elf file

That possibly means you have a really old version of modprobe installed
(like from the kernel 1.X days) or the version you have has become
corrupted.

That in itself isn't enough to cause the lockups, but if it has been
corrupted, what else has been corrupted?

My reaction to random file system corruption is format and start again,
because you don't know what is and what isn't corrupted (unless you have
md5sums of everything) but then I'm used to dealing with mission critical
systems, so you may not wish to be quite so drastic. 

 - Matt