Hi
I would just like to share a "Kernel Panic" remedy
with the group. It might be trivial to some, but I
think it might be useful information.
The problem I had was that Linux crashed consistently
because of "Kernel Panic", all I could do was to power
off.
This stated to happen a while after I had upgraded to
AMD K6-2 (333MHz), what I then could figure out the
problem occurred in conjunction with APM. I turned off
APM (did not start apmd at boot). After this I was
still always getting the "Kernel Panic" crash but not
as often!!! Linux would stay up longer.
My next approach was to inspect the memory and CPU. I
tried with reducing the memory and got an interesting
result: I have 96M. With less memory in the box (32M
and 64M) I got the "Kernel Panic" crash right away
after boot!!!
Well, next thing to check was the CPU, I bought a
better fan. This did not help. After that I checked
the jumper settings for the CPU.
* That is where the problem was: *
* I was running the CPU on 2.9 *
* volts instead of the specified 2.2 *
After fixing this the machine has been rock stable,
even with APM activated. I now know I should have
checked the HW first, but I thought it was a software
problem.
My two cents,
/Tiho
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