System hanging at boot

Charlie Farinella cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com
Fri May 30 15:57:59 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:31, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On 30 May 2003, at 3:18pm, cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com wrote:
> > I tried to restart the machine and it hangs at:
> > 
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k
> 
>   What have you changed since you last successfully booted the machine?

Nothing.

> 
>   You might try running a memory diagnostic.  MemTest86 is very nice, and
> free.  <http://www.memtest86.com>

In progress, it takes awhile.


> > Searching the web leads to references to rebuilding the kernel ...
> 
>   Rebuilding the kernel... for what reason?

I haven't a clue, I just saw some references to it.

>   What makes you think installing RHL 9 would solve the problem, anyway?

Nothing really, I'm trying to line up my options.  :-)

thanks for the response.

--charlie


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