Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20001116070014.00f92584@popd.ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:00:14 +0000 From: Samy Elashmawy <samelash@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE+Thunderbird 1000 Kieth, <p>I'am taking a blind stab at this. 1/ are using suse 7.0 ? some of the older versions required building a kernal for athalon chips. 2/ have you tried a clean install as well as formating all partions ? You may have something on the drive that is srewing it up 3/ I would copy the hd bios options from the PIII bios and use the same exact setting in the new machine. Also was it set to 66 or 33 as far as hard drive interface speed ? I would start at basic 33 , test it , if woks than later bump it up. 4/ have you checked the memory ? is it rated for the mb/cp ? pc133 I think is what you want ? 5/ you may even want to just slap in the hard drive , install , then put in the other perihials one at a time and istall the drivers with yast2. 6/ I would go over the motheboard setting and make sure it was not overclocked or set up wrong. As far a overclocke/rated thunderbird remarked cpu I do not know it this is a posible problem like it was a while back with some of the intell cpus being overclocked/rated and relabled. At 07:14 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, Keith Warno wrote:
Something I should point out. The *harddisk* that is in the Thunderbird system used to be in a PIII 733 system. The harddisk already has SuSE 6.2 installed on it; I had been running it fine for the past few months.
I took the harddisk (and other peripherals like network card/sound card, etc) out of the PIII 733 box and threw it in the Thunderbird box, figuring that everything would be fine but everything is surely not fine. The system has crashed numerous times in the past 30 minutes; it simply locks up at random times, kind of like the old Cyrix chips did when they overheated. :/
I've tried rebuilding the kernel with minimal drivers and such. No luck; crashes either during make dep or make zilo. I've tried booting a kernel built for K6 chips from a floppy; no go there either. Crashes just the same.
At this point my HD is getting phucked left and right, doing fsck after every hard reboot. This is not good. What's worse is that my company bought 6 of these things, 5 of them are to be diskless (using LTSP stuff: www.ltsp.org); my CTO is going to be rather unhappy when he hears that Thunderbirds and Linux just don't seem to jive.
In the meantime, I have to put the HD back in the PIII 733 box, and vomit in my shorts. I can't stand Intel; they are the M$ of hardware.
If *anyone* has a Thunderbird 1000 running *any* variant of Linux please get in touch with me and clue me in as to what black magic you used.
Regards, kw
-- 7:03pm up 1 day, 20:11, 7 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00 Keith Warno [h]<pr0n@optonline.net> || [w]<keith.warno@valaran.com>
On 2000-11-14 at 18:26 -0500, Keith Warno uttered:
| Hello folks. Is there anything special that must be done in order to | use an AMD Thunderbird 1000 sanely w/ Linux? I've had crazy problems | thus far w/ a Thunderbird running SuSE 6.2+kernel 2.2.17. | | The motherboard is the MS-6340 Micro-ATX VA mainboard w/ VIA KT133 | chipset. and the damn thing has locked up solid already while in X. | | Also which bootdisk from 6.2 should be used w/ Thunderbird boxes for | installation purposes? Booting from 6.2 CD#1 causes a kernel panic with | a nice stack dump. | | Any help will be appreciated! | | -- | 6:20pm up 1 day, 19:28, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 | Keith Warno [h]<pr0n@optonline.net> || [w]<keith.warno@valaran.com> | | | -- | To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com | For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com | Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq | | |
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