<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:root@pneumaticsystem.com">root@pneumaticsystem.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thank you for the response, Tim:<br><br>This makes little sense without knowing what partition you removed and<br>what you mean by &quot;removing&quot; it - did you take it out of /etc/fstab? Did<br>you actually repartition your disk? What partition was it, what kind was
<br>it (primary, logical, extended) and what was on it? Hopefully we can be<br>of more assistance with this info.</blockquote><div><br>I removed the partition from /dev/fstab.&nbsp; It is a partition on /dev/sda1, a SATA drive, with about 20% fragmentation.&nbsp; I moved everything off the drive, and will reformat, making sure it is in ext3 or other journaling format.&nbsp; Something was triggering a check every boot.&nbsp; (message saying the partition was not properly mounted---I don&#39;t have access to the exact message now).&nbsp; 
<br><br>I wonder whether this kind of hardware issue might trigger the Machine Check Exception.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Alan Davis<br><br>&nbsp;</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-Tim<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">
lngndvs@gmail.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>&quot;An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,