From: sswnnixo@vipnet.ro
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:06:52 EEST
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
>----------
>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
>--
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> | CARC Repeater 146.940 DN62 |
> | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RM-APRS |
> | "The Dungeon" at http://go.to/KC7ZRU |
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in
>the body of a message to dhoohch@mail.dy.fi
>
>
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in
the body of a message to axwyk@pepperdine.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:09:16 EEST