ok, i can take a few hints here. one i can/ should cold boot the 3400 - easy enough for the time being (more hassle no sleep). [sorry about my attachment to the old macos, totally non-free, but non-commercial anyway, these days; could be just like this is extension conflict bootx with tablet driver or speech-to-text. Sorry.]
anyway, assuming cold start really stops it, otherwise probably there could be something worse wrong. anyway i use everyday so l will try and see. 2) i have just now check my logs i don't see any thing noted about the boot panics, even though apparently the hd (ide) was mounted. so no help there. 3)perhaps i have been lazy or at least a bit impatient to be doing some "real work", i need to spend some time studying modules and kernel tweaks. is true i think i could move the scsci module loading up earlier, which may need to boot from an external drive, i need to check but don't i have to load the module into the ramdisk or something. btw is it any help to increase the ramdisk size really (that is in bootx window). in my attempt to copy the hd here into the beige g3 (so to see any of my issues changed) get with my sort of kludge install -- i got my internal scsci but not the external i wanted to copy from. noted on the list here recently an item about installing onto scsci ... some extra effort needs, could be better that way. [also i could remove the IR port i don't use, right ??] some thought i have had about trying other kernels - don't know enough about that yet. but i am ok with a 2.4 if it works better, seems you can even run etch with 2.4 (?). 4) the font problems seem to have some connection with unicode - which i recognize is still pressing issue even in etch. (at least i know that the dillo browser is putting in that with a library version which has not yet reached currently in unstable ... ). so like rxvt works, wterm half works, xterm less than half... (try xfm - popup window). unless i am just completely confused about permitted ways to specify font resources - anyway it surely was corrupt out of the box, somewhere... in context of powerpc and oldworld mac in particular i wondered if anyone had experiences like this elsewhere, i have tried putting in more unicode support (gets worse), taking out as much as i could (a little better) in the packages. 5) one last thought - briefly - i was looking with interest at pegasos experiment with 603ev-400Mhz/266DDR. i am not buying 10 though, have to find a 3rd party... am i crazy - well they are only $150. it costs almost that much for 128MB ram alone for the 3400. thinking of like in a box, like a backend, what would run there... brian --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:47 +0200, Michael Schmitz > wrote: > > > > On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed > cold booting 2.6.17 (pulled > > > > Tuesday) panics somewhere during knfsd or > samba startup. The oops does end > > > > up in the log so it does not seem fatal > > > > > > > > 2.6.17-rc5 does boot fine under the same > circumstances. > > > > > > Ouch... looks bad... looks like memory > corruption to me. > > > > I'll try to boil it down to a reasonable test case > - in fact, leaving > > samba out of the init scripts it boots fine, and I > can hammer it with MOL > > and OO.org. until close to OOM. Ater the system > boot has completed, I can > > start samba manually and repeat the stress > testing. > > > > Potential hardware problem that goes away after > the machine got used for a > > while? > > BTW. Try enabling all the kernel debugging options > too, might help spot > the problem sooner. > > Ben. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
