On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:13:07PM +0400, Alexey wrote: > I have installed Potato.
Upgrade the kernel-image that come with it. It is old and if there are any bugs in it, there is a good chance that these are fixed in newer, already available kernels. > Sometimes my computer hangs up. There appears: > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... > and so on. Clear sign of kernel trouble. Can be kernel bug or hardware brokenness that is beyond coping for the poor kernel, which gets confused. > After all, if I try to boot from Debian GNU/Linux Potato CD, I get > the same message: Unable to handle..., registers, stack and so on. Sounds like definately hardware. Make a memtest86 bootfloppy and leave it running on your computer for a few nights and days. If nothing comes up, enable "ultra performance" options in the bios to set the chips to their performance edge and try again. Maybe overclock a few system busses a little (1 to 5 %) to actively trigger boundary conditions in the hardware. If nothing comes out of that still, try latest kernel (2.2.20-pre3, resp. 2.4.6-pre3 or 2.4.5-ac20 IIRC) and report any problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But not after reading the BugSubmitting.txt in the documentation directory of the linux kernel source, of course. Cheers, Joost
