I was premature in announcing a successful Linux install. Oh well...
Trying to install SuSE again, this time with the packages I really
wanted, instead of the base system, I kept freezing up on me, with no
keyboard input.
I then installed RedHat with default settings, just to get through the
installation quickly. I could boot into RH just fine. But it crashed
there a few times. However, I was able to capture some error messages
better, since I was in the command line.
Here is an example message (various numbers left out, very easy to
reproduce if you need them):
[root ~]# ls -l
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<075a120c>}
EFLAGS:00010206
...
...registers...
...
Process ls (pid:311, process nr:6, stackpage=072a800)
Stack: .....
Call Trace: .....
Code: ......
Segmentation Fault
The computer didn't hang here, but it did while I was trying to shutdown
cleanly, with a similar message.
I told Linux that I only had 16M RAM, to help see if at least the upper
end of the memory was bad, to no avail. I turned of cache, etc.
Found a FAQ at Redhat that said sometimes the AMD K6 hangs, but the
problem was usually solved by updating the BIOS (I did already), or
replacing the motherboard with a different type (a pain in the neck to
disassemble the computer, but if I have to, oh well...).
Anybody got anyother ideas? Anyone using an IWILL XA-100+ motherboard
with an AMD K6? They're both popular items right now, so I know that
someone, somewhere is using this combination.
--
David Johnson...
