Thanks, I'll try that. How do you set the smp? in menuconfig? Chris
I had wondered that at first too. But 2.6.8-2-386 boots and runs fine as does 2.4.27-3-686-smp. So I don't think it's really a HD failure....
The error message seem to rotate (1 then the other). The first time I reboot I get this: . . . end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector...
Here is a stange one. I installed 2.6.8-2-386 and it boots/runs fine (debian netinst). So I did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp...
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