segmentation violation on boot

[Rob Kirkbride]

Shawn wrote on 04/04/2005 09:19:

>on boot I get
>segmentation violation 0x24e3d4 sleeping for 30 seconds
>is this likely disk failure? none of the kernels I have will work.
>I did a system integrity check and was required to run fsck? manually
>but I really wasn&t sure what to do so gave up
>Ill try knoppix to try to get some data back
>any other suggestions?
>  
>
Sounds very much like memory problems (just having had them myself). 
Boot into memtest from knoppix.

Rob