Sir,
I think that this is due to restarting the machine having Dual/Triple
OS.
I experienced this type of crash many time, due to restarting the machine.
My experience is,
If you having dual OS of Linux, both are share the single swap partitions (
by using auto guided partitioning using large free space in ubuntu
installation) and when we restart the machine, change the OS when booting,
OS will crash. I used RHEL4 and Ubuntu 7.10.
If you having Dual OS of Linux and Windows XP, Improper shutdown and
restarting machine to switch over from linux to windows will cause System
cash which is normal.
I don't have an solution. Only thing is try to backup your datas and
re-install it.
First install Windows then Linux. edit the grub to add booting option for
windows. avoid NTFS partition for windows.
Please avoid to use Windows with Linux. try to use wine package.
Padhu,
Ooty.
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