RE: GPF on RH 7.1???

From: sswnnixo@vipnet.ro
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:06:52 EEST

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    Is he POSITIVE it's booting into RH and not into Windoze?? Is it a dual
    boot system?? Just a thought... And yes, that GPF screen is a
    screensaver when using KDE on RH7.1 - fooled me the first time it
    happened, then I saw the sad Mac screen and chuckled....

    73

    .mark

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    >From: KC7ZRU - Tate[SMTP:kwz.ciufcxfd@lehre.fh-hagenberg.at]
    >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:53 AM
    >To: linux hams
    >Subject: GPF on RH 7.1???
    >
    >Buddy of mine here (KC7UGE) just came into work with a great sob story.
    >He's trying to install Redhat 7.1 on an older tweaked out Aptiva. Yea,
    >this puppy has been overclocked and pushed to the hilt. CPU is an
    >AMD-233 w/80M-o-RAM. BIOS only indicates speed options upto 166. And
    >yes, it's running at 233. He tells me the Aptiva's motherboard dosen't
    >support any of the AMD CPUs either(?).
    >
    >Install flies nice. Runs setup to change system services. Does a reboot,
    >logs in and walks away from the box for dinner. Comes back and he says
    >he's got a black screen with "General Protection Fault" across the top
    >and a whole page of hex addresses, cursor blinking at the bottom. He
    >swears it wasn't a screen saver. keyboard and mouse un-responsive -
    >totally locked up on him. (no idea if he tried Alt+Fx for another
    >terminal or not). He power-cycled the box, now it just hangs on
    >Initializing eth0. He says he left it there all night long - no change.
    >
    >This make sense to anyone? I suggested he 'un-tweek' all his stuff and
    >start over with his Aptiva configured to original speeds. Ideas?
    >
    >I coulda sworn the only GPF info on LINUX was the screen saver - he's
    >adamant it wasn't a screen saver.
    >
    >Besides living for unstable hardware, is he smoke'n his socks too? Or
    >have I just misunderstood a facet of LINUX?
    >
    >Thanks!
    >
    >73
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