Re: [gNewSense-users] Boot problem

[Tor at Shared Genius]

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Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Nicolas Hussein schreef:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> We tried today to boot without any USB plug. And unfortunately it didn't
>> boot.
>>
>> There seems to be a « kernel panic ».
>>...snip...
>> Nicolas
> 
> My first guess is a RAM problem. Run memtest (it's a boot option).

Ram issues can be sneaky.  I have personally seen a bad chip that only
showed a problem when in one slot but not the other, and only if the
other slot was filled, IIRC.  I am no longer certain that I ran enough
tests to prove this beyond doubt, but I definitely had good memtests
with only that stick or with that stick and another in the opposite
configuration from the bad memtest.  I'm not sure I tried both slots
with it alone (I never have figured out for sure which slot is primary
on that computer,) but I doubt it matters.

Tor

> My second guess is a hard disk problem. Run fsck from a live CD.
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