Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:33:12 -0800 | From | "Paul G. Allen" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Athlon SMP blues - SOLVED by gpm |
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As the saying goes, "It's probably some little thing."
It's always the little things that seem to bit you the hardest and where it most hurts. :)
PGA
Alastair Stevens wrote: > > > > I installed Red Hat 7.2 and the machine boots fine, using SMP or UP > > > kernels (Red Hat 2.4.9-7), but totally HANGS at the login prompt. Can't > > > type, can't reboot, can't do anything. Single user mode _does_ let me > > > in, however, and this is the only progress so far. > > > > Try plugging in a mouse or stop running gpm. > > YES YES YES!!! This was it! After 24 hours of building 17 different > kernels, checking out every inch of my hardware, and trying to build > ramdisk images, it was the humble 'gpm' that caused my headaches! > There's no mouse on the machine. Thanks very much indeed, and boy have I > learned something now.... > > PS - thanks to all who sent in lots of ideas on this problem! It > actually turns out the machine is *not* overheating at all. The 76C BIOS > CPU temperature was erroneous, and in fact it's more like 42C now, which > is perfectly healthy of course ;-) > > Cheers > Alastair >
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