Re: [LUG] Mandrake 10.1 Unstable

[Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Julian Hall wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| No it's not a new distribution, regrettably.  What it is appears to be
| Mandrake emulating Windows quite successfully in its' ability to fail to
| boot for no apparent reason.  Symptom is quite simply random 'kernel
| panic'messages on boot, random inasmuch as their timing cannot be
| predicted, but they always reference 'Interrupt Hander not syncing' and
| the system locks up requiring a hardware reset.  Any ideas what could
| cause that?

That'll be the effective windows emulation.. just making windows users
feel at home :-)

| Would this be a good time to try Debian, as I have a nasty feeling a
| reinstall is going to be the fix anyway?

Normally.. it is emulating windows remember ;-)

| If trying Debian IS a good idea, what pre-emptive steps should I take
beforehand?
|

backup;
~ /home
~ /etc

that should capture anything of substance...

Personally I have /home on a separate partition so i can nuke the core
of my distro (should i feel the urge) and keep my home dir stuff..


anyway HTH


Neil
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