Install of mandrake 7.1 on an ibm netfinity 8500R 4-proc Xeon 550. 2 pci eepro ethernet 1 olympic chipset ibm token ring 2 disks on adaptec aic 7890 using ai7xxx.o not running X 2GB of ram Install goes off fine. I have to limit memory to under a gig for linux to recognize the disks on the adaptec card but other than that it runs great with the stock kernel. When I compile kernel 2.4-test7(also happened with test6 and 2.3.99-pre9) I can run for about 10 or 15 minutes and then get a hard lock. no keyboard or mouse. does not respond to ctl-alt-del. hitting reset reboots the machine fine. I have tried stripping down the kernel to just bare bones but got the same results. If anybody has come accross a similar problem or knows of a fix please let me know. If you need additional hardware descriptions please let me know. thanks Sam.
