-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are you booting with the boot-time kernel parameters "mem=nopentium" and/or "noapic" ?
These can be put into an append line in lilo.conf also. Here is a snippit from a lilo.conf file showing the append line near the bottom : - --------------snip-------------- boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux-smp keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi mem=nopentium noapic" read-only - ---------------snip---------------- You will have to (re)run lilo in order to commit the changes to disk. KevinO . wrote: > Well, I do have some new parts installed in the system, but I'm > pretty sure this was happening before I installed the new hardware. I > upgraded the motherboard and CPU to an AMD XP 1600. > > memtest is reporting errors on tests 5 and 8, which the docs say > happen often with AMD XP CPU's and some cheap memory chips. I have a > PNY pc133 256MB chip and a Kingston pc133 256MB chip. I would not > consider either of these "cheap" memory, and the problem exists with > both chips by themselves, as well as together. I suppose I could try to > find a different RAM chip, in case they are both bad (which I doubt). > > I have several IDE devices, so I tried unplugging all unnecessary > devices for getting to memtest, but the problem still existed. I'm > building a new system, so I grabbed the power supply out of it (which is > bigger), and plugged it up, but that didn't fix the problem either. > > I'm going to see if there's a bios upgrade for my motherboard, but > after that I don't know what to try. It seems like it's either the CPU > or the motherboard ... neither of which I can test individually. > > Cory > > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:37 -0600, . wrote: >> >>> Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping back >>> from gui to console after a period of uptime? I have a computer that >>> I run at init level 5 and use as my main home PC. However, I also >>> have it running several things out of cron, and performing server >>> type functions like samba and cups. It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB >>> of RAM, so I don't feel I'm asking too much from the system. >>> >>> Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will >>> be at a console login prompt. After a series of stopping and >>> starting xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems >>> to get me back to a gui login. Then I can log back in and continue >>> on. The problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I >>> keep loosing my work when this happens. >>> >>> I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I >>> thought I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this >>> and/or knew what the problem was. >> >> >> >> Sounds like a hardware prob to me. Install memtest and reboot to the >> memtest boot option and run it over night. >> >> wobo >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE92etCjBS1mMJB+bQRAkR/AJ9ihJdclsVxIRsR5oIszwBzBUvjWwCfdQpZ si2KujFB5FgnVSFpsSIUNEw= =Tewd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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