[mdlug] Laptop woes - Knoppix boots but Ubuntu doesn't?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> It got 40% through one pass last night, forgot to mention before. I'll let it run a full pass, but in my experience with dodgy RAM, if there's a problem it's usually found pretty quickly.
> 


You mean like at booting up....

Or do you mean "in the first few days as opposed to years later"
In which case, you would be only half right.



Electronic failure curves tend to look like this:

% failure
	|
	|
	|
	|                                -
	|                               / \
	|                              /   \
	|\                            /     \
	+_\_________________________- ___+___-___________>
					MTBF		time->
         ^                               ^
         |                               | 
         +--- marginal product           +-- Bulk of production
	 which manages to pass               which passes QC tests.
	 quality control tests.


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>> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Jeff Hanson
>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 3:47 PM
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Laptop woes - Knoppix boots but Ubuntu doesn't?
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>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Ingles, Raymond
>> <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
>>>  So, something in the hardware has apparently failed in such a way that
>>> Ubuntu won't boot but Knoppix will. Very strange. Anyone seen anything
>>> like that? I'm going to try the Ubuntu "alternate install", which might
>>> let me actually see the kernel messages on boot. I'm also going to try
>>> some other distros, like OpenSUSE or Fedora. It'd be nice to resurrect
>>> this thing.
>> If it didn't break because of an update then run a RAM test.
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