Luis M wrote: >it could be a kernel panic. >when that happens to my ibook ( when I was using Mandrake's kernels as >you are now), my ibook kept panic'ing for no reason. I could not see >anything in the logs. It usually happened after being away from it for a >long time -- >
Yes. My G3s are servers (file servers) and they reboots on nights or on Saturday and Sunday (I see this with 'uptime') >and usually whenever I mounted something, like a NFS drive >(I compile my kernel with NFS support builtin, not as a module, just in >case -- I use it all the time with the ibook). I thought it was some >'modprobe -r' (cleaning the modules) trying to unload a module or >something, and that causing the panic. > I want to try this. > >My solution for it was to get the source for the kernel ( got mine from >tuxppc.org because I could not get the kernel-source...rpm to compile in >my ibook... well, now I know that I should've used 'make mrpropper', but >anyway... ) > >after compiling the kernel using 2.4.19-pre4 my ibook has been rock >solid. > OK. So I need just a new kernel. tnx, Miguel Beccari
