Hi!
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Brian Leeper wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Tony Wildish wrote:
> > Try booting with the 'mem=xxxM' option to limit yourself to a small
> > amount of RAM. If you are lucky then the problem is high enough in the
> > memory that you can limit yourself to a good region and it will work.
>
> There's also a memtest86 utility that compiles under Linux to produce a
> disk you can boot your system with and test the memory--I've find some bad
> memory with that before.
>
> Compiling a kernel a bunch of times is also a good way to test if you've
> got bad memory.
Before I knew about memtest I compiled the kernel several times. It failed
after one loop. The second time it failed after the 50th loop (2 days
running). I checked nearly everything, no solution. (I got a stable
"snapshot of my configuration".)
After one year the problem occoured again on this machine. Now I know the
problem. It was the ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT. Switch it off. Always. And
read the tips in the kernel-configuration-help to APM in 2.2.x.
Bye,
Rob
