Startup problem

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-07-06 01:17, Gene Heskett whipped out a trusty #2
pencil and scribbled:

>On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:01, Harry Zhang wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm very new to Linux, and had just finished installing Fedora Core
>>1,  The initial boot was succesful, however, the 2nd and 3rd ...
>>was not. The second time I boot (with grub) the system started to
>>the startup process, while the system tries to load, somewhere
>>around loading cups, instead of ok, it just froze, and the next
>>time I boot, it started again, but this time, it gave me that the
>>previous session was not shutdown cleanly, and then i tried to use
>>force checking the root, but it didn't work, instead, it shows this
>>error:
>>
>>Code: ff 0b 8b 4d e4 8b 75 e4 83 c1 2c 8b 51 04 8b 46 2c 89 50 04
>> <0>kernel panic: Aiee, killing interupt handler
>>In interrupt handler - not syncing
>>
>>but something strange, I didn't give up, so i tried again, this
>>time, samething but it did start, right after i force checking the
>>root, it boots to the system, and everything went well, but the
>>next time i boot, well same problem happens. I'm new to Linux, so I
>>don't know how to use a rescue mode to fix this problem. Can
>>someone please help me with this.

I'm not at all sure what happened to the text I typed in to respond to this,
but here's another try:

While it perhaps is corrupted software or configuration, erratic behavior like 
this is often associated with flakey memory or an overheated CPU.  Check that 
your CPU fan is running, and swap out your memory with some other machine.


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Fritz Whittington
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