Re: EMC crashes

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

Hi Matt 
Aiee is a kernel message that usually means something very bad has 
happened.    Often means the software is not getting on with the 
hardware.

After a  successful fsck then fresh boot, consider running dmesg, eg 
dmesg > boot.log
and sending the resultant boot.log, which is the guff the kernel spits out
when booting. 
It could be interesting to see what the kernel thinks its running on.

Crashes are fortunately very rare when the hardware is good and the
kernel understands it.  2.2.18 will run and work for years happily, 
( well, without rt-linux it will certainly)
regards, john  


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, Matthew King wrote:
> 
> I am very much a EMC newbie, as well as a Linux newbie. What does one do
> when the system crashes and there's no choice but to cold boot it? I get all
> sorts of error messages (Aiee and such) and the machine won't boot.
> 
> I've reloaded the system from the BDI disc once and would rather not do it
> again, if I can help it - there's gotta be an easier way!
> 
> Thanks any help,
> 
> Matt King
> Columbus, GA
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