Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:50:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Gleason <clash@zogbe.tasam.com> To: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sysinstall/Hardware Pains Message-ID: <20010905144748.K90403-100000@zogbe.tasam.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0109051140390.82020-100000@meow.lab.nuxi.com>
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If I ever seen anything weird happening, I do a memory test. http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ works well for me. It creates a boot disk that tests the memory with various paterns. It can find alot of problems that the BIOS memory test misses. Jospeh Gleason On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Chern Lee wrote: > I have someone with the following configuration: > > Shuttle AI61 Motherboard (AMD 751 chipset) > AMD Athlon T-bird 900 MHz > 512 MB PC133 PNY Memory > > He's been able to install Windows 95 and run it with no problems, but > FreeBSD's Sysinstall chokes. > > At random points during the install (before the main menu, while > extracting distributions, etc), Sysinstall segfaults/signal > 11's, or panics and reboots. > > It seems definitely like a hardware problem with such awkward behavior, > but what exactly it is, I don't know. > > He's tried two different CDROM drives. > > Any of you experienced any similar problems with this particular > motherboard/configuration? > > Thanks. > > - chern > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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