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

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

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:38:07 +0100

Nathan Mates wrote:
> 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.

I ran MemTest86+ overnight (it went through 53 passes) and reported no
errors - I'm quite impressed considering how much the system has been
used over the years.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again,
Matt :)

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