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alex
2002-11-25
2004-08-16
  • alex

    alex - 2002-11-25

    On one of my computers the boot pauses forever after it says:
    Freeing kernel memory: 136K freed
    (or something similar to that)
    I can still type things on the screen, and when I press ctrl-alt-del it writes
    md something on the screen then resets the machine and the same thing happens again.

    works ok on another machine.

    I have:
    K6-II 500,
    Gigabyte 5AA mobo
    sparkle gf4mx440
    256 MB ram.
    SB Live Value!
    Realtek NIC
    8GB WD HDD
    40GB  WD HDD
    Fujitzu 24x CD-ROM

     
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2002-11-25

      I'm having same problem; (essentially same machine, except
      a ASUS 5A motherboard). 

       
    • luiz costa

      luiz costa - 2003-01-04

      I have the same problem too , this is my box:
      K6-II 553
      Via VT 82cb686a
      314 MB Ram
      Geforce TNT 32 MB
      30 GB HD
      Maybe something about AMD K-6II processor ?????

       
      • Andrew S Velikoredchanin

        Hm. In Cool Linux kernel compile for Pentium processor. May be this not compatible with K6? :(

         
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-01-05

      Linux never runs well on any AMD system that I know of. I used 2 AMD systems in the past one k6-2 500 and a duron 1.2ghz system and they always ran at about half there posted speeds. I tell everyone if they want to run linux get a pentium. My current hardware is:

      Main
      P4 (celeron) 1.7ghz
      Saphire socket 478 board
      512mb pc133
      2x WD 40gb drives
      HB burner and Hi-val DVD

      Laptop Compaq presario 1600-xl145
      P3 600
      64mb ram
      6gb internal and 8 gb external drives
      DVD

      Both systems are running full RedHat 7.3 distro.

       
    • NICKHELL

      NICKHELL - 2004-08-16

      well...i just a newb who has played a lot with some live cds, also tried suse, mandrake, debian and that...i have an amd athlon XP 2400+ and all went good with it. But right now im having this kernel mem issue on a k6 II 350.
      Sorry but this the only info i have, well and 198MB pc100, mobo...with ali chipset (old one), and sb pci, and a matrox 550...
      and i really want to try your distro. Any ideas???

       

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