[NMLUG] This box runs windows ok but won't run linux

[nmlug@swcp.com (Aaron Birenboim)]

Mike wrote:
> 
> Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> >
> > Mike wrote:
> > >
> > Is this what LINUX does for a crash dump?
> 
> Haven't seen it appear upon crash. Or are you talking about a trace of
> the system stack as below?

yea

> I don't boot into X. I start it later. I just looked with 'ps aux' and
> saw syslog running.

good.

To others...  Just because syslogd is running.... does that mean
its working?

> How do I capture crash dumps or trace the system stack?

Frankly, I don't know.  I've done it for Solaris and AIX, but not
LINUX.  Having done it before, I could probobally find out how
on the WWW.  Keywords -- Linux, kernel panic, crash dump.

I'm sure somebody, someplace has a nice tutorial about
how to look at a dump, and at least get a system stack trace.
Perhaps through adb (assembly debugger) run against the kernel
and the system core dump.

> I'm thinking
> maybe a hardware problem but windows still runs normally on the same
> box, same hard disk. If windows runs does that mean my hardware is ok?

well.... that looks bad for linux.
If there is nothing of great importance on the LINUX
partitions.... perhaps you could see if FreeBSD installs
ok  ;-)
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