pentium 100 woes.

[Gregory Nowak]

Sounds to me like a bad bios or system bus.
Greg


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:02:15AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also
> get an out of memory error as well.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM
> Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.
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> 
> > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
> > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
> > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
> > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
> > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
> > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
> > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
> > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
> > on that box.
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> >
> > > hi guys,
> > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > my problem is however,
> > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > just to give a quick background,
> > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots,
> I
> > > get linux to come up.
> > > thanks in advance for any help
> > >
> > >
> > >
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