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--- Stuart Biggerstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this has been covered. I have a K6/2-300 system which > (finally) > runs well, but on shutdown segfaults, with the message Bad EIP value. > I > have found references to this problem > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg45447.html)--but > > none to a solution. > > The problem seems to be that the operating system (here Mandrake, 8.1) > > recognizes the motherboard based on its BIOS as one that will allow a > software shutdown--when in fact it is not. (It is an AT motherboard, > but > ATX features are included in the BIOS.) This is a guess, based on the > fact > that it does it when shutdown to halt, but not rebooted. It is also > confirmed by others who have made the same guess. Mandrake offers a > possible solution, as 8.1 allows installation of either a 2.2.19 or > 2.4.8 > (default) kernel. One of the comments about the problem said it > happened > with a 2.4.8 kernel, but not a 2.4.5 one, but as a quick test I > installed > Mandrake 7.0, and it does it too. > > I suspect I could fix this by editing the script it runs on shutdown, > but > so far I have not found what that is. Can anyone suggest where I > look? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
