Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:22:18 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.0 oops (with ksymoops output) |
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On Sat, 15 Jun 1996 tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au wrote: > > Below are oops from two crashes I've had so far with linux-2.0. > Both times the machine was unattended, and found oopsing when I came > back to it.
Looks like memory corruption. These cases _tend_ to be due to APM: I'd suggest people seeing this try to disable all APM features (both from the BIOS setups and from Linux itself). I suspect that there are APM BIOS'es out there that scribble over memory that Linux is using (they probably "know" that the machine is running DOS/Windows and it uses the "standard" DOS/Windows memory layout).
Note that you really need to check the BIOS too - even with the kernel compiled without APM support you may have BIOS accesses through the so-called "system management mode" on Pentium chips, which Linux doesn't even know about.
Oh, btw, I haven't gone through all reports very carefully: I've been reading mail for several hours, and I'm still only a third way through my mailfolder that has accumulated during my trip to Argentina. As you may guess, this means that most mails I have are not read very carefully. Don't expect me to be up to full speed until next week..
Linus
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