From: Jim Price WW4M (vjqn.npbvebhqw@bpc.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:20:44 EEST
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73, Jim WW4M
terhi.victor@logonet.com wrote:
>
> 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:ljqtxjp.jtlap@emiboston.com]
> >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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