Glenn I'd like to know what brand/size/speed/CAS you've got installed in your system. Have you set the BIOS to automatically detect RAM speed or have you tried to overclock your ram? If you're using Corsair XMS or TwinX LL branded memory of DDR400 speed, try lowering your RAM voltage to no higher than 2.7-2.8V in the BIOS and run the machine through memtest again. You might want to emerge pciutils and when it's installed, issue an "lspci" to see what, if anything is coming up as "Unknown XXXXX." If you report back with a full lspci output, and you tell me what other kernel options you'd like enabled, I'd be happy to squirt out a quick optimized .config for you (with no way for me to test it, it'd be up to you to build and test the configuration). If you're having problems with your NIC, you must have the e1000 driver compiled either into your kernel or as a module (I'm assuming genkernel does this for you).
When you say memtest died in "Pass 2" did you mean it completed all tests, started over and THEN died, or did it die in the 2nd test: (Test 2 [Address test, own address, no cache])? Feel free to contact me personally off-list via email or IRC, I'd love to try to help you figure out this hardware problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Paynter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install bewilderments > > Glenn English said: > > It's time to compile the kernel. The system boots from the hard > > disk, and root can log in, with a kernel compiled using the > > default config, but DMA isn't enabled for the disks. The 'Enable > > IDE DMA if available' config switch is on. Why isn't DMA? > > Have your tried "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx", replacing "hdx" with your > hard drive?? If that works, you can add it to /etc/conf.d/hdparm. > You might need to "emerge hdparm" first. > > > > When I run the memtest from the Live CD, it dies in pass2. I tried > > it with both sticks in, and with both sticks individually > > You may have a problem with your RAM even though it doesn't show up > under regular use. That's what memtest is for - to test all > combinations that might cause a failure, even though you may rarely > do those things live. > > -Eric > > -- > arctic bears - email and name services > 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month > DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year > for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit > http://www.arcticbears.com > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
