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Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

From: Grazyna Rymaszewska <grazar(at)gmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 16:56:12 EDT


Wow! Thanks a lot for your help!!!
Meantime, after several reboot, we have hard disk failure... I wonder if it was the cause of out problem. If not... we have one disk less and the problem unsolved! ;-| G.

2007/8/31, m.roth2006@rcn.com <m.roth2006@rcn.com>:
> >Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:06:41 +0200
> >From: "Grazyna Rymaszewska" <grazar@gmail.com>
> >
> >Could you explain what is 'memtest86', please!!!
> >I have the same trouble: rebooting server with nothing in message log.
> >And I don't know how to find 'memtest86' in my RedHat4.
>
> Try googling on it? You might find, oh, about 641,000 hits.... It tests system memory (but *not* the video card!). You cannot run anything else while it's running: you boot from the floppy or cd (the Knoppix live cd comes with it as a boot option), and you let it run. Overnight is a good time, though if you're really in a hurry, maybe two hours. It will let you know if there's harware errors in your memory.
> .
> You *should* have it in your toolbox as a sysadmin.
>
> BUT IT WON'T DIAGNOSE THE VIDEO CARD!
>
> mark
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