FC3 x86-64 freezes on SATA?!?!

[Maurice Hilarius]

Angelo Machils wrote:

> Hello there!
>
> Sometimes my box just 'freezes' on me, especially when I try some 
> disk-intensive task (like rebuilding the database for slocate).  It's 
> probably a kernel panic (afterwards there are no entries in any log) 
> and this also happens sometimes even at startup (most times at the 
> 'checking for hardware' point).

First check for memory problems.
Memtest86 is a good tool for that.
Google for it.


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