Anyone curious... http://www.memtest86.com I got this from Freshmeat.. Very slick little program. Gives you the source, you compile it and it gives you a bootable image. Very nice setup. Thanks again Nick! nathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Estes" To: Sent: Monday, 13 August, 2001 6:37 AM Subject: Re: Screwy EXT2 and ReiserFS > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Everything will work okay, but randomly it will lock up. I've > > installed everything about 8 times and it just does the same thing > > everytime. Slack 8 uses the 2.4.5 kernel and I've heard some horror > > stories about it and ReiserFS, so I have a linux-2.4.7.tgz package I > > made and as soon as I reboot, I install that and build a new kernel. > > This seems to be fine, but it still locks up. It has to be something > > to do with my WDC15300 hard drive. So I just gave in and put EXT2 > > back on my system. I kept the current partition scheme as I liked it > > a lot because I want to play with some database toys I recently got. > > Under the assumption that in both configurations you're running the same > hardware/sofware/daemons/everything except for reiserfs, then I would > suggest running a memory checker. I have worked with a box that was doing > something similar to what you described here with ext2 and reiser, and it > turned out to be bad ram. I have also heard rumors of boxen that work > fine with reiser but puke with ext2 also due to bad ram. You might try > going to freshmeat and searching for memtest, if nothing else, it's an > easy way to rule out the possibility. > > --Nick > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ > > iD8DBQE7d3Wlv+hjYTGg7s4RAiNEAJ45YkA2NxZHF2NHuhU8j1y9JL2VrACfZKgV > Op37S/cUJRPr8yb944d8Qhg= > =2YlU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >