On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, T. Warfield wrote:
> I get through the installation just fine -- however when it reboots and
> the login primpt appears -- a huge kernel panic occurs which is puzzling
> -- looks like it's occuring when the swap proccess gets called -- below is
> the output i see:
[output cut]
> not syncing -- does this mean the HD is not syncing ?
No, it means the kernel itself is not attempting to sync the disks (flush
unwritten data out of cache) before halting. Depending on where in the kernel
a panic occurs, the routines needed to sync the disks may be considered "safe"
or "unsafe". It's a judgment call made by the kernel programmers at design
time.
> I have tried another distro as well and it froze -- i'm putting my weight
> towards a possible memory problem.
It is almost certainly faulty hardware. Bad memory is very popular, but it
could also be a damaged CPU, disk controller, or other core component.
Remotely possible is incompatible hardware, but everything you described seems
like common, commodity stuff.
> Any suggestions?
Start swapping hardware until the system works, to isolate the bad
component.
"Who is this Colonel Panic guy, and why's he trying to kill me?"
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| to anger." -- J.R.R. Tolkien |
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