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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install 
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> Hmmmmm.  Now this smells like a cache problem! :-(
>
>     Jordan

The OS's disk cache or the computer's RAM cache? The latter has been
exercised heavily and seems to check out OK.

Disk I/O problems would certainly lead to coredumps, so this may be related
to the instability I was seeing.

--Brett