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From: Joseph Gleason <clash@zogbe.tasam.com>
To: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Sysinstall/Hardware Pains
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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
>
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