Hey all,
SOLVED: See below. I hate discarding a half-finished plea for help!
Must be that kind of week.
I'm working with an ENDAT 586CL motherboard, AMD K6-2 333-66 CPU.
I've been through Redhat 6.0 and even trusty 5.2.
The machine comes up fine, everything seems to work ok.
Then I start a kernel compile: freeze in the middle of make zImage
somewhere. Sometimes I can get through a compile a couple of times before
it freezes. I know it has to be a hardware problem, but what? There is no
video involved (not running X).
Full details:
Arista RS-100C
Motherboard: ENDAT 586CL
CPU: AMD K6-2 333MHz, 66 MHz bus
RAM: 128MB, single DIMM, 66 Mhz
HD: Fujitsu 6.4 GB
The motherboard has onboard LAN using the Intel (DEC) 21143, which I got
to work with the latest version of tulip.
Things I have tried:
Booting single user at all times.
Adding "mem=64M" to see if the RAM or portion of RAM is an issue.
Different Hard Drive (gonna try a different cable).
SOLVED:
As always, the freeze problem is hardware related: The simple answer is
the CPU was overheating!
I had checked it several times while setting up the box, I didn't
notice the heat sink even getting warm. But after mentioning a different
hard drive cable and feeling foolish for not thinking of that earlier, I
went to the box (which had frozen again a couple of minutes ago) to change
the cable. Wait a minute, the end near the MB was really warm, how come?
Turns out the CPU was only getting real hot when doing actual work.
Morale of the Story: When you encounter a freeze, look for something warm!
;)
So, now the question is how to cool the sucker down.
In Linux we trust,
Bill Carlson
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