[Cooker] Isolinux broken

2003-10-13 Thread Frank Griffin
In current cooker (and for several days now), booting isolinux to do a hard drive install fails on my notebook. You go through specifying the drive location, get "second stage" and "probing serial ports", several lines of stuff that flies by too fast to read, and the a dead black screen. A har

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-11-15 Thread Blue Lizard
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: >>There is another program, cpuburn, that help to found that kind of >>problems, it executes secuences of instructions that are known to heat >>the CPU. I don't remind the URL, but goople should help you. >> > >Google?! > >[root@cooker root]# urpmq -r cpuburn >cpuburn-1.4

RE: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-11-15 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
> > There is another program, cpuburn, that help to found that kind of > problems, it executes secuences of instructions that are known to heat > the CPU. I don't remind the URL, but goople should help you. > Google?! [root@cooker root]# urpmq -r cpuburn cpuburn-1.4-1mdk -andrej

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-11-15 Thread Juan Quintela
> "guillaume" == Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: guillaume> Paolo Pedroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Il 12:43, martedì 30 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: >> >> > Do you use it often? Did it allow you to detect memory problems in the >> > real world? >> >> I detected memory p

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 03:10 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >cpuburn http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/severely tests > > This looks interesting; I'm thinking of puting that in the rescue; > what would you advice? What's the procedure? Fork, l

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 05:18 pm, Yura Gusev wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >cpuburn http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/severely tests > > cpu/cache/ram. As a long time overclocker, I can say if your > > system can run cpuburn for at least 30 mins, it's stable as can >

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Yura Gusev
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: >cpuburn http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/severely tests > cpu/cache/ram. As a long time overclocker, I can say if your system > can run cpuburn for at least 30 mins, it's stable as can be. Quicker You know the risk of overclocing but you can't pr

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Yura Gusev
On 30 Oct 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this would be a VERY good thing (provided there's not a major > > technical showstopper with memtest-x86, which is what I'm afraid of). > > Do you use it often? Did it allow you to detect memory pro

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait Guillaume Cottenceau : > > BTW, thanks Guillaume for your Penguin Liberation rpms ;) > > As Blue told it, you're mixing the Guillaume's :-). I'm the only real one, gc is a vile usurpator :-) -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.h

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >cpuburn http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/severely tests This looks interesting; I'm thinking of puting that in the rescue; what would you advice? What's the procedure? Fork, launch the "burn*" program and monitor the process? It seems that burnBX

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Blue Lizard
Tom Brinkman wrote: >On Tuesday 30 October 2001 11:11 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >>Paolo Pedroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I detected memory problems at least three times, using memtest. >>>It just works! Now, everytime some friend of mine asks me to >>>check their malfunctioning c

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 11:11 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Paolo Pedroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I detected memory problems at least three times, using memtest. > > It just works! Now, everytime some friend of mine asks me to > > check their malfunctioning computer, first thing I d

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Paolo Pedroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Il 12:43, martedì 30 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: > > > Do you use it often? Did it allow you to detect memory problems in the > > real world? > > I detected memory problems at least three times, using memtest. It just works! > Now, everytime some frien

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-30 Thread Paolo Pedroni
Il 12:43, martedì 30 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: > Do you use it often? Did it allow you to detect memory problems in the > real world? I detected memory problems at least three times, using memtest. It just works! Now, everytime some friend of mine asks me to check their malfunctioning computer

Re: [Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Oct 29, 2001 at 08:47:20PM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: > If isolinux is kept for 8.2, what's keeping you from also allowing it to > boot memtest-x86? It would be an awesome thing to be able to tell > users "it sounds like you've got hardware problems, boot CD 2 and select > memtest". Compar

[Cooker] isolinux

2001-10-29 Thread Todd Lyons
If isolinux is kept for 8.2, what's keeping you from also allowing it to boot memtest-x86? It would be an awesome thing to be able to tell users "it sounds like you've got hardware problems, boot CD 2 and select memtest". Compare that to "go to /images on CD1, find memtest-x86.bin, make a boot