Janko Knops wrote: > My raq2 had some rather weird problems booting up after a powersurge, so > I decided to give it a clean install. > > I've put up a bootserver (nfs) as described in the cyrius.com-guide. All > works well, till I reached the point where I wanted to let the raq2 boot > the installer. It keeps on giving weird hangups, on completely different > places. > > I started swapping several hardware to find the problem and my findings > while doing this are: > > - no harddisk attached --> doesn't even startup > - 1 strip of 32 MB ram --> boots with 16 MB > - 2 strips of 32 MB ram --> boots sometimes with 32 MB > - 1 strip in second slot --> boots with 16 MB > - other harddisk attached --> doesn't boot at all > - booting the original debian installed on it --> hangs up in normal > mode when checking the harddisk, in recoverymode just while trying to > load the image en the old linux gets a kernel panic straight away > > I've managed twice to get the installer to load, but there it just hangs > up completely. > > The raq isn't getting very hot (except for the harddisk, but that has a > pretty good cooling with 2 small fans blowing straight over it). > > Now I'm wondering if it could be perhaps some faulty memory, or a busted > ide controller, or something like that. Because the results don't make > any sence to me since they occure pretty random.
Sounds like flaky RAM. I had similiar troubles with my RaQ, they were caused by oxidised connectors. I solved this by treating the memory module with eraser rubber. :-) Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
