From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 05 Apr 1999 - 01:34:19 IST
Sounds like dodgy hardware,
you can do the standard test, edit the kernel makefile and where it has
MAKE=make change it to MAKE = make -j 8
Then re-compile you kernel and see if you get any Sig11's in gcc,
Check your chip isn't overclocked also ... some dodgy dealers have been up
to this lately ..
Dave.
-- ------------ David Airlie, David.Airlie at domain ul.ie,airlied at domain skynet -------- Telecommunications Research Centre, ECE Dept, University of Limerick \ http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied -- Telecommunications Researcher \ --- TEL: +353-61-202695 ----------------------------------------------- On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Trevor Johnston wrote: > I have been having enormous problems installing both SuSE 5.1, Redhat 5.1 > and Redhat 5.2 onto a Cyrix 6mx86, 233Mhz, 64Mb. The installation almost > always crashes when installing packages; in the past it has been sufficient > to go through the install process a few times, select a minimal amount of > packages, and hope for the best - eventually it would work. > > But tonight, after three hours of frustration, I could not upgrade from > Redhat 5.1 to Redhat 5.2. After much coaxing, 5.2 refused to install and so > a downgrade back to 5.1 was necessary - but even this only eventually worked. > > Anyway, I presume twelve crashes is not supposed to happen. Is this a > problem with Cyrix, me, Redhat, or is there simply a black hole (or > something) around my house (or have I got a rubbish computer)? > > Thanks in advance for any help anyone might have with this incredible problem, > Trevor Johnston > > PS > As a sign of the frustration has caused, my return key is now detached from > the keyboard. > >
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