On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Steven Krikstone wrote:
> Trying to install redhat 5 on a new customers machine. It is a Pentium
> 200 w/MMX, with 32 megs ram. The motherboard is an Intel 82430TX, with the
> Award 4.51PG BIOS version. For some reason, when I try booting with the
> floppy that came with redhat, the machine magically reboots as the kernel
> is loading. As far as I can tell (the info scrolls by quickly) the kernel
This has happened to me on two different machines.
On Machine A, it turned out to be a bad DRAM SIMM. The machine had 64mb of
memory configured as four SIMMS. Removing the upper 32mb made the machine
run stable as could be. Some experimenting with the removed SIMMS swiftly
pinpointed the defective one.
On Machine B, it was a misconfigured BIOS. There was 64mb of memory in
this machine, as two SDRAM DIMMS. I had stupidly told the BIOS to use some
feature of the TX chipset that in the TX chipset documentation explicitly
said "Don't use this if you have two banks of SDRAM".
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions
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