Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Walt.

I live on a tropical island.  I've been going through about all the
suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of.
Changed NICs.  Recompiled kernel with better configuration.

Uptime 1:39

An improvement from earlier today.

I've edited /etc/fstab.  But I'll leave grub alone until I'm sure what to do.

Thank you again.

Alan





On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots.  I have now
>> discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the
>> root directory of my Gentoo install...
>
> No, the two are not related.  In my experience, anything that goes wrong
> at random times is related to hardware flakiness -- usually because some
> piece of the hardware is running too hot.
>
> I happen to live in a very hot, dry, dusty place.  I see random flakiness
> just about every summer, which I fix by blowing the thick layer of dust
> off of the CPU heatsink and RAM chips and the power supply with a can of
> compressed gas.  Of course, I also check that all of the fans in the case
> are still working.
>
> Do you know about memtest86?  If you have random nastiness you should run
> memtest86 at least overnight to see if your RAM is becoming senile ;o)
>
> I have suggestions about grub also, but, to be coherent about them I need
> to be much more awake than I am now.  I'll check back tomorrow.
>
>
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