on Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:13:47AM -0800, William Ballard (40311.nospam@comcast.net) wrote: > I can O/C my computer stable to 230mhz FSB in Windows but it's not > stable in Linux -- I get ReiserFS corruption. Up to 220mhz is stable > everywhere. (Actually I can push it farther but don't want too much > heat). > > I'd like to check /proc/cpuinfo early in the runlevel init > scripts, preferably before the root is mounted, and halt if the MHz > number is too high. However since 'sed', 'cut', 'bash', and 'halt' are > only available on the filesystem, I'd either need a special tool like > busybox available somewhere or else I have to compile this into the > kernel itself. Possibly an initrd. Or a custom-compiled C solution. One option might be to boot DOS (faster boot), run you CPU speed check, and either shut down or load GNU/Linux via LOADLIN.EXE depending on the result. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Necessity knows no law.
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