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Re: Kernel panic



On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Iftach Silberman wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> > > It's not a dual boot machine, and now the same thing happend again with
> > > the 3com card.
> > Ok, one last trial: Is there a PCI busmastering option in the BIOS ? If
> > yes, make sure that the CPU is the busmaster (strong arbitration or smth.
> > like that). If even this won't do it, you might have to slow the machine
> > down a bit using a wait state. 
> 
> Where exactly do I set this up? I don't recalll any such thing in the BIOS
> setup.
> 
> .Iftach
> 

There should be an option in the BIOS somewhere under chipset features
etc. Dig a little. I don't even know what BIOS you have, you did not say.
Write the current settings down before doing this, and be prepared for
accidents if you remove wait states anywhere.

Peter