On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 19:11 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: > >> > >> You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to > >> eliminate hardware problems. > >> > >> I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I finally tried > >> Knoppix, and found it froze the box also, and after some more > >> diagnosis (including swapping out the processor) came to the > >> conclusion that my mobo had turned south on me. But for quite a while > >> I thought it was software-related; it "felt" software-related. > >> > >> -- Kent > >> > > Interesting. Looking back in my log book I find I installed a new > > motherboard and cpu (Albatron KX400-8XV and Athlon XP2000) on Nov. 7th > > and kernel-source-0.6.0-test9 on Nov. 9th. Installed > > module-init-install on Nov. 11th as this was needed to load the ehci > > module. The first note of a boot up problem was on Nov. 12th. > > > > Could there be a motherboard problem? I have used Albatron KX400 > > series motherboards in other computers with no problems but, > > interestingly, I recall seeing a message regarding an unknown > > southbridge when booting up from the bbc-2.1 cd. > > > > Tom > > It could be. I would go ahead and try the above suggestion of running > Knoppix on it for a few days. If that stays stable, then it's probably > the kernel. There's a reason that the 2.6 line of kernels is still > called "test". If you want solid performance, you should stick to 2.4. > > (You meant 2.6, not 0.6, right?) > > -- > monique > OK, I downloaded Knoppis and will try it for a few days. And yes, I did mean 2.6, not 0.6. I understood the implication of "test" and had already reverted to 2.4.22 and the problems continued. In fact, last night the shutdown seemed completely normal but this morning bootup halted with a "general protection fault"! Again, booting from bbc-2.1 and running e2fsck -f on all partitions found nothing following which the system booted to 2.4.22 with no problems.
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