[lug] Not booting anymore?

[Hugh Brown]

file corruption on the kernels

full file system

bad ram

those are all the ideas I have.  I would try and rebuild the kernels
after booting from the generic kernel and see if that fixes things.

Hugh

PC Drew wrote:
> 
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 3500 running Red Hat 6.0 (I think it's 6.0)
> that's been working fine for...9 months now.  I woke up this morning,
> turned it on, and it froze after the lilo prompt:
> 
> LILO boot:
> Loading new..........
> 
> And then nothing.  When I tell it to boot the generic "linux" kernel,
> it boots okay.
> 
> I've got a third kernel called "old" and when I try to boot that,
> here's what I get:
> 
> LILO boot: old
> Loading old..........
> Uncompressing Linux...
> 
> ran out of input data
> 
>  -- System halted
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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