[GRLUG] Newbie running into real headaches

[Jacob Billingsley]

If you are using grub to boot I would try to boot into the previous 
version of the kernel if that's still an option. Doing an "yum update" 
and letting it do it's thing is nice because it can be left unattended 
but you should review all updates that will post before you run this 
command. If it did install a new version of the kernel, it will leave 
the previous version there in case the new one has problems.

As far as you questioning the integrity of your RAM; I would run a 
memtest with both sticks of memory in to see if it tests out. I usually 
do this with my favorite live cd (knoppix).

Benjamin Woolley wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I am attempting my first real linux installation, with the intended 
> result
> of having a MythTV server to run the media in my house.
>
> I have downloaded and installed the latest Fedora Core and updated it 
> with
> YUM. Then things start to get flakey.
>
> I was having segmentation faults when I was trung to install MythTV, 
> and now
> it has gotten to the point where I cannot even boot into Linux anymore. I
> get the following message during the boot process, and it just keeps 
> cycling
> through the boot after that.
>
> "kernel panic - not syncing  pci dma memory would be corrupted"
>
> Being a windows guy in my former life, I have no idea where to look to 
> fix
> this problem. At first I thought it might be a corrupted memory stick. I
> have 2x 512 sticcks, so I popped one out and tried to boot. I got the 
> same
> result, so I tried it with the other, and unfortunately got the same 
> thing.
> Am I barking up the wrong tree with regards to a hardware issue? The
> hardware ran fine for nearly 3 years under XP.
>
> Any help you might suggest would be greatly appreciated. I really 
> don't want
> to scrap Linux and go back to M$ if I can avoid it.
>
> Thanks!
>
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