Hello, I have been using PPC Linux on an Macintosh 8600 for a few years, but the rest of my network has moved to Mandrake 8.2 for Intel. Recently, I took the plunge and converted the 8600 to Mandrake also. The install was a little bumpy, but after a few tries, I managed to get things up and running.
Unfortunately, every several hours the kernel panics. No logs are written to disk, so I can't paste a traceback here. After 180s, the box reboots back into Linux. The one time I saw the panic in action, the screen showed "Task" as "swapper"... if that is useful for anyone. There are no particularly interesting processes running on the box; the heaviest load it is under is providing resolving DNS service for about 10 other machines. The unit has 192M RAM, plenty of disk and swap. I doubt it is a hardware problem because MacOS 9 runs without crashing, and this problem did not occur under PPC Linux even when the machine was left running for months between reboots. My next idea is to put a dedicated monitor on the 8600 running top, and hope that I see something interesting happen before the next panic. Does anyone have a better idea? Thanks, David.
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