Re: 2.0.32 freezes.

[Dave Andruczyk]

> second ncr53c810, 2 8 port cyclades 8Yo serial port boards, a DEC tulip
> ethernet card @ 100Mbps and a S3virge/DX video board.
> 
>   And again the hard drive light is rarely on when I go to reset it, so I'm
> thinking its not caused by the HD.  Doing "make -j" on the kernel doesn't
> seem to phase the system after it's freshly rebooted.  It seems to take some
> time before it's ready to die.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Check your lilo append line.  Add a line that says " append = "mem=191M" "
Use 1 meg less than total ram.
The kernel usually queries the bios for the total amount of memory, and in
most cases gets it right, but on some Mboards/bios it get the wrong
number.

	The halt may be caused by exceeding the memory boundary, which
won't happen until the system has been doing things for a while, ( several
large compiles, open netcape lots or times, etc...)

Dave J. andruczyk
Linux Systems Admin
Buffalo State College