Linux-Misc Digest #904, Volume #26 Wed, 24 Jan 01 04:13:02 EST
Contents:
I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....? ("Stefan Viljoen")
How to duplicate RH Boot Diskette ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....? (David)
Re: I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....? ("Jeremy N. Surma")
gcc 2.96 & KDE2.1 beta ("David_B")
Re: How to duplicate RH Boot Diskette ("Jeremy N. Surma")
Re: VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98 (Steve Withers)
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? ("Luminary")
Boot problem: Can't start aurora (Carfield Yim)
Re: mounting extended partition (Eric)
Question about tarballs (Scott)
Re: Question about tarballs (elmig)
Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition? (Eric)
delay getting login when connecting via telnet or ftp ("Litho Man")
Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! (bob)
Re: Booting with no console (Dries van Oosten)
Re: athlon kernel panic is repeatable (bob)
Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! (bob)
Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! (bob)
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:41:50 +0200
Reply-To: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi!
I want to format my Windows partition and reinstall it (again...) without
damaging my Linux partition. Is it safe to go
format C: /s
(which I have always done) or would this damage LILO somehow? My LILO is
installed in the MBR.
Also, how do I make a Linux bootdisk?
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Stefan Viljoen
F/EMS Dispatcher
Potchefstroom F/EMS
South Africa
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to duplicate RH Boot Diskette
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:26:44 GMT
I just upgraded my Redhat 6.0 to 6.2 with one redhat Boot Diskette and
one CD. Now I want to make an exact image copy of the supplied Boot
Diskette. First I thought it was the same as the boot disk I created
when I was in the middle of upgrading (which is the same as running
mkbootdisk after upgrade). I was wrong based on ls -l /mnt/floppy. So I
tried this:
put in the redhat Boot Diskette
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
for i in /mnt/floppy/*; do
cp $i /anemptydir
done
umount /dev/fd0
put in a blank floppy (probably formatted by NT format utility before)
mformat a:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
for i in /anemptydir/*; do
cp $i /mnt/floppy
done
Unfornately, even though the disk thus prepared looks exactly the same
as the Boot Diskette based on ls -l, when I put it in the floppy drive
and reboot, the bootstrap ignores it as if nothing was in the floppy
drive (not even say you didn't put a system disk in there). But if I
put the Boot Diskette in, it goes to the screen for you to choose
install or upgrade.
How can I duplicate that Boot Diskette? Thanks. (Why I still need it is
another story)
Yong Huang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:53:49 GMT
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I want to format my Windows partition and reinstall it (again...) without
> damaging my Linux partition. Is it safe to go
>
> format C: /s
I use to do it when I had windoz95 you just need a bootdisk to get back
into linux.
> (which I have always done) or would this damage LILO somehow? My LILO is
> installed in the MBR.
>
> Also, how do I make a Linux bootdisk?
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 x.x.xx
# x.x.xx is kernel version.
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Completed more W/U's than 99.015% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Jeremy N. Surma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want to reinstall Windows but keep Linux Ok....?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:02:09 -0600
You should be able to make a Linux boot disk, format /s & re-install
Windows, then boot from the floppy and re-install LILO to the MBR, I've
never tried it but it should work fine.
--
It's 2 a.m., do you know where your hard drive is?
"Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94lt6r$ab6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> I want to format my Windows partition and reinstall it (again...) without
> damaging my Linux partition. Is it safe to go
>
> format C: /s
>
> (which I have always done) or would this damage LILO somehow? My LILO is
> installed in the MBR.
>
> Also, how do I make a Linux bootdisk?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stefan Viljoen
> F/EMS Dispatcher
> Potchefstroom F/EMS
> South Africa
> http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
>
>
>
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From: "David_B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: gcc 2.96 & KDE2.1 beta
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 00:01:11 -0700
Will gcc 2.96 (latest patched version) compile KDE2.1 beta? I know 2.95.2
will compile KDE2.1, but I was wondering if 2.96 will handle it. Thanks.
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From: "Jeremy N. Surma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to duplicate RH Boot Diskette
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:06:02 -0600
try putting the first disk in the drive unmounted, then type
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/bootdisk.img
then put in the destination disk and type
dd if=/tmp/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
--
It's 2 a.m., do you know where your hard drive is?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:94lsj0$dpv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just upgraded my Redhat 6.0 to 6.2 with one redhat Boot Diskette and
> one CD. Now I want to make an exact image copy of the supplied Boot
> Diskette. First I thought it was the same as the boot disk I created
> when I was in the middle of upgrading (which is the same as running
> mkbootdisk after upgrade). I was wrong based on ls -l /mnt/floppy. So I
> tried this:
>
> put in the redhat Boot Diskette
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> for i in /mnt/floppy/*; do
> cp $i /anemptydir
> done
> umount /dev/fd0
> put in a blank floppy (probably formatted by NT format utility before)
> mformat a:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> for i in /anemptydir/*; do
> cp $i /mnt/floppy
> done
>
> Unfornately, even though the disk thus prepared looks exactly the same
> as the Boot Diskette based on ls -l, when I put it in the floppy drive
> and reboot, the bootstrap ignores it as if nothing was in the floppy
> drive (not even say you didn't put a system disk in there). But if I
> put the Boot Diskette in, it goes to the screen for you to choose
> install or upgrade.
>
> How can I duplicate that Boot Diskette? Thanks. (Why I still need it is
> another story)
>
> Yong Huang
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:10:19 +1300
> Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > I have been trying to install Win98 as a guest host on my Linux system.
> > The partition I plan to use for Win98 is /dev/hda3. I have tried toggling
> the
> > partition id to FAT16, ext2 and FAT12.
> >
> > I am trying to install the Win98 on a virtual disk and not to a raw
> partition.
If you want a virtual disk, then you really want a file on your Linux
partition. Mine is in my /home/steve/vm directory.
If you want to put the Win98 system onto /dev/hda3, then you will have
to specify raw disk.......
Virtual disk is easy and you don't have to mess with your
partitions....but it is limited to 2GB (per virtual disk - you can have
multiple virtual disks). It doesn't start at 2GB...but it can grow up to
that.
Steve
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: "Luminary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:54:02 +1100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken Moffat"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I artikeln <93l3gv$mcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>>
>> > I could spend a week trying every MUA in linux.davecentral, but
>> > reliability would still be a question. So I'm asking for
>> > recommendations from folks who've been using a program for at least a
>> > couple of months and who know that it fulfills the above (admittedly
>> > long and picky) wishlist.
>> >
>> > Heartfelt thanks in advance!
>> >
>> > Mark S Bilk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Try Balsa - best effort I've seen so far on Linux.
>>
>> /Mats
>
> Probably needs kde2 or gnome.
> :-(
>
>
I missed the original post so can't see the list of requirements, but I
use Pine because it is quick, efficient and highly configurable. Pine is
a console based agent but there is an X-based frontend. The X based
frontend does not require Gnome or KDE but you have to patch the Pine
source code and recompile to make it work (this is due to licensing
issues).
Cheers.
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot problem: Can't start aurora
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:06:31 GMT
My system boot halt when booting server aurora, I can press ctrl-c to abort
it and continue the system booting. Can anyone tell me what is it and where
can I find more information to fix this?
And the error message is remadmin can't connect to display:1 what is it??
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting extended partition
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:32:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Santosh C wrote:
> This is not the problem since I could mount C drive. The problem
> is only with D drive.
>
No the problem is with your partition table, as svend-olaf mentioned.
follow his advise (or lose your data)
Eric
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Subject: Question about tarballs
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:31:22 -0500
From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a question about tarballs. basically how do you go about
creating one and extracting one. I'm new so be gentle please. :-) Well,
new to Linux at least, not to computers.
Thanks!
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elmig)
Subject: Re: Question about tarballs
Date: 24 Jan 2001 08:36:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott) wrote in
<3a6e92fe$0$30005$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I've got a question about tarballs. basically how do you go about
>creating one and extracting one. I'm new so be gentle please. :-) Well,
>new to Linux at least, not to computers.
>
>Thanks!
>Scott
>
That's easy, type:
man tar
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:42:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 1. Wouldn't it be a good idea to umount everything but the hard drive
> being copied (assuming a one-drive install), to avoid unwanted copying of
> mounted partitions?
No need to unmount them.
There's a switch with cp (-x), forcing it never to copy multiple
partitions/discs.
It depends on the situation if it's unwanted to copy those mounted
partitions.
> 2. Wouldn't it be a good idea to skip copying the /proc directory, and
> just do a 'mkdir /proc' on the new drive?
I don't know. If you want to copy the entire system for backup purposes,
I'd copy everything. Not sure if there's any reason against this for a
new machine.
Eric
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From: "Litho Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: delay getting login when connecting via telnet or ftp
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 00:47:57 -0800
I'm running Redhat Linux 6.2 on a P100 with an internal network.
Until recently I have had no problems. In the past couple of days,
however, when I go to telnet or ftp into my server I connect, but there
is about a 60 second delay before I get the login prompt.
This is very frustrating for telnet, but I can't even log into the ftp
server before the server closes the connection.
I have noticed on reboot that eth0 (the only network device) takes
about as long to start as well. Other services... httpd(apache) and
webmin ... return requests immediately, and telnet is instant once I've
logged in.
HELP!!!
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 00:49:22 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mine ended up being the new Athlon chip. 6.2 doesn't like it :-(
I loaded 7.0 without a problem. Now for your error. Hmmm.
The specific error was that RH 6.2 was trying to reset the serial number
on the Penrium chip, of which there isn't one. thus the error. Thus, I conclude
that the error message is related to the OS findings issues with the HW.
Maybe a bad DIMM? or other component failure?
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> bob wrote:
> >
> > I have seen the same error message fight after I booted the machine.
> > I think it's an OS/HW issue. A serious one!!
>
> Did you solve it? It is new. I did not get it for 10 months after I got
> this machine, and then it started happening. As far as I remember, the
> only change I made was upgrading sendmail from 8.9.3 to 8.11.2. I cannot
> believe that would have anything to do with it, since, while the
> sendmail daemon is running, the connection is not up yet as the ISP has
> not told me my IP address (which I happen to know, since it is fixed,
> but they tell me) or theirs.
>
> Since it is a new problem, I am inclined to go with the hardware theory.
> I have seen pattern sensitivity in magnetic core memories in the past
> that were difficult to diagnose, since the memory test programs worked
> just fine. It crashed the OS I wrote for the machine, though. Luckily,
> the OS was completely relocatable, so I moved it up by a few words in
> memory and the problem went away. This enabled me to pinpoint the memory
> addresses that were at fault, and I could write about a 16-instruction
> program (nothing less would cause the problem) in assembler that caused
> the failure, and gave it to the hardware techie who promptly fixed the
> hardware.
>
> But I suppose the problem could be a modem problem as well. It seems to
> be happening about once a week. I wish it would go away or happen a lot
> more frequently. Then I might have a hope of finding it.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > On 19 Jan 2001 08:39:44 -0500, Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >Steve wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> I can't help with the dump, but I can tell you that when my machine
> > > >> was randomly crashing, I got memtest86, and sure enough, one of my
> > > >> SDRAMs was bad.
> > > >>
> > > >I have been getting too many crashes lately. I got memtest86 and it says
> > > >everything is fine (though the program crashed (locked up) instead of
> > > >exiting after the last of the default tests. I have 512 Meg RAM, so it
> > > >took over two hours to run.
> > > >
> > > >Can you tell if it is a good program? Or is it just giving me a false
> > > >sense of security?
> > >
> > > All I can say is that it worked for me. There are the
> > > default tests, and then there's a more extensive set of tests.
> > > I'd try running the complete suite of tests overnight.
> > >
> > > >My Linux crashes in the same place when it crashes; when dialing up my
> > > >ISP. All the hand shaking is done and the ISP is just about to tell me
> > > >my IP address and their IP address, but instead, the system is totally
> > > >crashed.
> > >
> > > This doesn't sound like a memory problem though. Bad RAM
> > > causes truly "random" crashes.
>
> It really depends on what is wrong with the memory. If it is
> sufficiently pattern-sensitive, it might appear to be very specific
> (misleadingly so). What if the bad memory were right where the modem
> driver code is. And that may be a module and work just fine when loaded
> any other place in real address space? (In this case, it does not look
> that way: the modem is not in /etc/conf.modules).
>
> > > If you're crashing the same
> > > place, that's a pretty good hint that memory isn't at fault.
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> ^^-^^ 9:10pm up 6 days, 8:13, 2 users, load average: 2.13, 2.13, 2.09
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Booting with no console
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:52:11 +0100
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyway - I can set the hardware up not to stall in the absence of a
> > keyboard and mouse, but what file edits must I make to stop the
> > operating system from complaining that they're not there on boot?
>
> None. The operating system doesn't care.
However, when you are not using physical consoles, you might as well shut
down a couple of virtual consoles in /etc/inittab. On my gateway/firewall
I have only 8 megs of memory, so every piece counts. Therefore, I
commented out the lines
c2:1235:respawn:blablabla
to
c6:12345: respawn:blablabla
This prevent getty's from being run in the background which lightens
system load. The one virtual console is there for when I get locked out of
the box.
Groeten,
Dries
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: athlon kernel panic is repeatable
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:00:01 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that was it
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
MH wrote:
> bob wrote:
>
> > I just had a box built with an 800MHz Athalon CPU on an AZZA
> > motherboard. I installed RH6.2 and everytime I turn it on I get a
> > "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!"
> >
> > I am thinking its a MB/OS issue. The OS can't or doesn't know how to
> > talk to the MB. I have sent an email to AZZA but I doubt they will
> > reply. The shop that built the box is clueless about linux. They think
> > you have to buy it. :-) I read in the RH HW support section that
> > certain athlon MBs have problems. Great.. But, supposedly, RH 7.0 loads
> > no problem. We'll see.
> >
> >
> >
> Since the information you provide is somewhat incomplete, I could be wrong,
> but I suspect your problem is with the CPU ID. The kernel is assuming
> Intel and trying to turn it off, but AMD does not have this feature, thus
> the error. There is a parameter you can pass to the kernel to solve this
> problem--by typing it at the linux prompt at boot. Unfortunately, it's
> been a long time since I've had to use it, so I don't recall the command.
> Hopefully, someone else will be able to provide this information.
>
> You can recompile the kernel, turning the ID option off, which will also
> solve the problem.
>
> --
> I use GNU/Linux and support the Free Software Foundation. This message was
> composed and transmitted using free software, licensed under the General
> Public License.
> --
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:02:08 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw the same thing when I first loaded RH 6.2 on an Athlon.
Sounds like a HW problem or the OS doesn't know what it is using.
My reference was
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
for the Athlon, hope this helps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Uh oh, I got a blue screen under Linux, it was black! I think it's some kind
> of hardware problem, since it happens both with Debian Linux 2.2 and with
> SuSE linux 6.4.
> Under Debian I get the message as stated below, SuSE doesn't
> say a thing and just hangs. It hangs very often (I rarely shut down in the
> normal way anymore). If my kernel panics, so do I! :-) Anyone wants to take a
> look at this? I have no idea where to look, and I wasn't able to isolate the
> problem so far. After taking out the ISDN, network or SCSI card, the problem
> still arises. Often (not always) when it hangs, the hdd light keeps burning.
> I thought it may have to do with the hard disk, so I turned off the
> auto-power-off in the BIOS setup. No effect. Bought new CPU fan, same thing.
> Debian and SuSE each use their own hdd. If someone could at least tell me
> what device causes it, I would be helped.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> general protection fault: 017b
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c01086dd>]
> EFLAGS:
> 00010246
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000001 ecx: c7fe8000 edx: 00000000
> esi:
> c02f6000 edi: 0001981c ebp: 00000e00 esp: c82f7fa4
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:
> 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c02f7000)
> Stack:
> c0106000 c0108704 00000000 c0109e5c 00000000 00000078 00000070 00098800
>
> c0106000 00000e00 00000070 00000018 00000018 00000070 c0106079 00000010
>
> 00000286 c02f8d14 00000000 00000000 c0106000 c02b37e0 c0100175
> Call trace:
> [<c0106000>] [<c0108704>] [<c0109e5c>] [<c0106000>] [<c0106079>] [<c0106000>]
> [<c0100175>]
> Code: f4 8b 5e 14 e8 ce 98 00 00 e8 d5 34 01 00 eb b4 8d 76 00
> b8
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not
> syncing
> hdc: lost interrupt
> hdc: lost interrupt
> hdc: lost interrupt
> hdc: lost
> interrupt
> (etc)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
>
> I have:
> CPU: AMD K6-III/450
> RAM: 128 MB PC-100 DIMM
> Mainboard: Chaintech
> CT-5AGM2
> Videocard: Diamond Viper 770 AGP
> SCSI card: NCR 53c810
> ISDN card:
> Eicon Diva ISA/PnP
> Net card: NE2000 compatible
>
> Any help is very welcome!
>
> jeroen
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:07:11 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
got it fixed.. Thanks to all. used RH7.0 vs RH6.2 :-)
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
bob wrote:
> I have seen the same error message fight after I booted the machine.
> I think it's an OS/HW issue. A serious one!!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 19 Jan 2001 08:39:44 -0500, Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Steve wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I can't help with the dump, but I can tell you that when my machine
> > >> was randomly crashing, I got memtest86, and sure enough, one of my
> > >> SDRAMs was bad.
> > >>
> > >I have been getting too many crashes lately. I got memtest86 and it says
> > >everything is fine (though the program crashed (locked up) instead of
> > >exiting after the last of the default tests. I have 512 Meg RAM, so it
> > >took over two hours to run.
> > >
> > >Can you tell if it is a good program? Or is it just giving me a false
> > >sense of security?
> >
> > All I can say is that it worked for me. There are the
> > default tests, and then there's a more extensive set of tests.
> > I'd try running the complete suite of tests overnight.
> >
> > >My Linux crashes in the same place when it crashes; when dialing up my
> > >ISP. All the hand shaking is done and the ISP is just about to tell me
> > >my IP address and their IP address, but instead, the system is totally
> > >crashed.
> >
> > This doesn't sound like a memory problem though. Bad RAM
> > causes truly "random" crashes. If you're crashing the same
> > place, that's a pretty good hint that memory isn't at fault.
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