Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?
Linuxguy123
linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 16:02:14 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:48 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:43 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> > > 2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ? Does this sound like a
> > > > kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ?
> > >
> > > If your drive and BIOS supports S.M.A.R.T, then gnome-disk-utility
> > > (palimpsest) will tell you the status of your drive..
> >
> > I can't seem to find this utility in Fedora. Can someone verify its
> > spelling/existence ?
>
> You can, too: yum search palim
Found it and installed it. Its a very useful application.
It was part of the gnome-disk-utility package. I missed that part in
the op.
My disk is SMART enabled and the utility reports that it is healthy. I
have a booting problem to look into.
Thanks for the help.
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