System Recovery
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 18:42:09 EDT 2008
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Labitt, Bruce
<labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> It installed some ata_piix ?? stuff
That's the driver module for your motherboard's SATA adapter.
Normal. (The name is vestigial; "PIIX" was some old Intel IDE
controller chipset, circa 1995.)
> then back to black screen a long list of hex addresses?
Sounds like a kernel crash ("oops"). Abnormal. It's not a good
sign that it happened during initialization of the rescue environment.
That suggests you may have a low-level hardware fault, like some bad
RAM.
-- Ben
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