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Need help: faulty H.W. or Linux system problem
Hi all,
O.K. I've been using Linux flawlessly for a year or so on a few machines
and never seen Linux behaves as "badly" as this:
When booting to Linux (RH6 with 2.2.10 kernel), at the very beginning
(right when "init" goes into action) the booting halted while I got a
few lines "...respawning too fast... disabled for 5 minutes...". Even
after 5 minutes it again outputs this stream of repeated messages, and
halts. ctrl+alt+del switches to runlevel 6 but nothing happens!. This
wasn't solved in next boot.
So I booted with he floppy I have, and it booted o.k. . Just in case, I
run lilo to ensure the MBR is o.k. .
Next boot the system booted without those messages, but from the very
first daemon that is run (apm), I get the message to my screen :
"<deamon name> : Warning :/boot/System.map-2.2.10 not parseable as a
System.map" . This is happening long after I compiled and run the new
kernel (with it's new System.map file), and isn't changed when I run the
previous kernel.
Now for the good part: At the same time, on the same machine (dual boot
Linux+Win98), Windoze98 is starting to go totally berserk, many times
reporting at boot time about registry problem (and restart needed...) or
simply spontaneously giving it's famous "blue screens". Occasionally we
did have problems with Win98 but not at that frequency.
My brother, who is an MCP and has resources for fault diagnostics, says
it might be a faulty memory, although the memory passes the BIOS check
at boot (64MB).
One more thing, its a P-II300 on a BX m.b.
Any ideas ?
TIA,
Boaz.
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