[PlanetCCRMA] fc4 freeze on boot!

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/17/05, Jonathan Segel <jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com> wrote:
> hello, i'm suddenly (last day or so) having a serious problem booting
> my fc4 machine. in the init phase it gets past the S88rtirq setting,
> through the next few (crond, xfs, anacron, atd, system message bus,
> cups and HAL) then big problem:
> the realtime module does not exist on this kernel    [WARNING]
> and the system freezes.
> i rebooted a couple time, and once it got past the warning and
> everything was fine, but now again it's stuck...
> 

Run memtest86. I came home from traveling for a few days. My last
Windows box booted fine. Windows said it had updates to do. I let it
do them. It said it had to reboot. I did. The machine wouldn't boot.
Windows is bad, right?

Wrong. I ran memtest 86 and my memory had gone bad. Called up Crucial
(lifetime guaranteed memory) and they're shipping me a new one for
free.

One last thing. If you look in BIOS and settings look weird then how
long has it been since you've changed the system clock battery?

Good luck,
Mark