On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:45:03AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org> was heard to say: > | Norman Walsh said: > |> I'm trying to build 2.4.20 for my Compaq 7470 desktop machine. > |> At various times it's hung immediately after booting or after some agpgart > |> weirdness (197M? I don't think so). > | > | most likely bad ram > > Well, perhaps. I had some odd compile failures that a little > net-research suggested was bad ram. I ran memtest for several days > without finding anything. But a little more net-research suggests that > memtest doesn't find all the errors. Heh, gcc is sometimes a better memory tester than memtest... > In any event, I've swapped memory modules in, out, and around on this > box several times without any change in behavior. Known good RAM still causes problems? I'd bet on another source of hardware problems...loose connections, overheating, etc, etc...2.4.20 is supposed to be a stable kernel, I'd think it fairly unlikely that it crashes on boot like that only for you...:) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Forte Qaddafi Blowfish Armani AGT. AMME MD2 UFO mailbomb
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