On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Pradyot Kulkarni wrote:
> drives. But when I tried to save this to partition tables I received
> this message : " Signal 11 received. Prematurely aborting linux
some RHL installations do have this problem, this might be caused by a bad
cd or flaky/heated hardware. It happened to me once and i had to resort to
booting from an rhl 6.0 cd and delete the partitions I had made from the
6.2 cd. After that 6.2 had no problems.
I did have a problem of overheating which surfaced while compiling the
kernel, but this problem ( crashing on writing partition ) was probably
caused by writing some junk to the partition table on the first crash
( which could have been overheating related ).
For my case, I basically needed to remove this corrupt partition that
might have got written. If you dont have a 6.0 cd or tools like partiton
magic handy, you can try deleting it from dos's fdisk. Since this fdisk
would not recognize the linux partition create a dos logica partition to
fill your extended partition. *reboot* (sic) and then delete this newly
created partition.
BTW do read the definitive guide about sig11 at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
in case you have further problems with sig 11. It has a new entry ( since
the last i read it ) re: crashes on installations. What it says is that
there might be a kernel bug causing it run low on memory. the doc suggests
typing "sync" frequently on a virtual console to keep the ram free of
buffered disk i/o. This typing might get tiresome, I guess the same result
could be achieved by doing something like
echo "10 500 10 100 ">/proc/sys/vm/bdflush
Read up vm.txt or man bdflush for more. Of the 4 numbers the 1st tells the
kernel not to accumulate more than that many buffer pages. 2nd -> max no
of buffers kernel can write to a disk at one go. 3rd -> no of free buffers
kernel will pre-allocate. 4 -> time after which kernel will write to disk
no matter what. So basically you can keep the 1st and 4th no low to
minimize buffering. Keep the 2nd and 3rd values default, i have concocted
these values from thin air so better not use them.
-- sreangsu
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