On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:43:30PM +0100, Erik Ester wrote:
I have a dual opteron rig and can't install suse 9.1 on it. It hangs every time.. I've tried it with acpi on, without acpi.. without acpi and DMA, have turned all the powersave functions in bios off. It still doesn't work. I managed to install it once and during the installation I moved the mouse everytime. But it hangs every time when running KDE3. can't use YOU to update because of the crashing of the machine. Have run several memory tests.. installed Windows XP and ran prime95 for hours, 3d05 for hours. No problem no crashes..
It could still be bad memory. Linux uses memory from top down, Windows from bottom up. If the top memory is bad Windows might not notice for a long time. Run memtest86 for several hours. Also I would connect a serial console and boot with console=ttyS0,baudrate and then see if you can catch some post mortem output during the crash. -Andi