I can give this a try. May I ask why I'm giving this a try?
thanks,
KevinO wrote:
Are you booting with the boot-time kernel parameters
"mem=nopentium" and/or "noapic" ?
These can be put into an append line in lilo.conf also.
Here is a snippit from a lilo.conf file showing the append line near the bottom :
--------------snip--------------
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux-smp
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label=linux-smp
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi mem=nopentium noapic"
read-only
---------------snip----------------
You will have to (re)run lilo in order to commit the changes to disk.
KevinO
. wrote:
Well, I do have some new parts installed in the system, but I'm
pretty sure this was happening before I installed the new hardware. I
upgraded the motherboard and CPU to an AMD XP 1600.
memtest is reporting errors on tests 5 and 8, which the docs say
happen often with AMD XP CPU's and some cheap memory chips. I have a
PNY pc133 256MB chip and a Kingston pc133 256MB chip. I would not
consider either of these "cheap" memory, and the problem exists with
both chips by themselves, as well as together. I suppose I could try to
find a different RAM chip, in case they are both bad (which I doubt).
I have several IDE devices, so I tried unplugging all unnecessary
devices for getting to memtest, but the problem still existed. I'm
building a new system, so I grabbed the power supply out of it (which is
bigger), and plugged it up, but that didn't fix the problem either.
I'm going to see if there's a bios upgrade for my motherboard, but
after that I don't know what to try. It seems like it's either the CPU
or the motherboard ... neither of which I can test individually.
Cory
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:37 -0600, . wrote:
Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping back
from gui to console after a period of uptime? I have a computer that
I run at init level 5 and use as my main home PC. However, I also
have it running several things out of cron, and performing server
type functions like samba and cups. It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB
of RAM, so I don't feel I'm asking too much from the system.
Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will
be at a console login prompt. After a series of stopping and
starting xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems
to get me back to a gui login. Then I can log back in and continue
on. The problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I
keep loosing my work when this happens.
I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I
thought I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this
and/or knew what the problem was.
Sounds like a hardware prob to me. Install memtest and reboot to the
memtest boot option and run it over night.
wobo
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