In the immortal words of Ted Ozolins: > In an attempt to install gentoo on the last system here not running > gentoo the bootstrap segfaults part way through glibc-2.3.4. I thought > it might be a bad ram so I ran memtest86+ overnight without any errors.
I heard once that memtest isn't a foolproof method of checking out the RAM. > I changed out the cpu (from athlon 1200 to athlon 1400) still the same > error. Power-supply checks out OK (no garbage seen on a Tek 2335 or Tek > 475 scope) MB is a new MSI KM2M. Are there any open source hardware > diagnostic tools that I can use to trouble-shoot this further? I'm using > the 2004-r3 universal live CD for this install from stage1-x86-2004.3 Could be the motherboard itself or something on it. Does the segfault happen at the same place every time? The only way to troubleshoot such annoying errors is to keep swapping out hardware. Try the same RAM + CPU on a different motherboard, etc etc. It's a pain in the bottom. --Ed -- "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." --Bertrand Russell. "Let us endeavour to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain "There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval." --George Santayana -- [email protected] mailing list
