Re: Rebuilding my system binaries led to some kind of kernel panic..?

From: Matt Bostock (matt_at_mattbostock.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:07:15 +0100

Thanks Nathan. I was wondering whether I should leave the ddb> prompt
there in case I need to find out any more info from it before rebooting?

Thanks,
Matt :)

Nathan Mates wrote:
> In article <7nJDc.135$SE5.119@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli.net>,
> Matt Bostock <matt@mattbostock.com> wrote:
>
>>It's a Pentium 200MHz (overclocked to 225MHz) MMX with 64MB EDO RAM.
>
>
> Tried going back to stock speed? Overclocking puts stress on a
> system which may show up only under extreme loads-- and compiling a
> new system is a pretty hefty load.
>
> Secondly, have you checked for RAM problems? MemTest86
> at http://www.memtest86.com/ is a great program for that, and a free
> download. There's also MemTest86+, a derivation of that project at
> http://www.memtest.org/ . Download one or both programs, copy to
> floppy/cdrom, and boot off them to run at least overnight. If there
> are any memory errors, FIX THEM.
>
> Nathan Mates
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