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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Could a GPF be caused by someone having set a Cyrix PR200 MX cpu (which 
the web says is 150MHz) to run at 167MHz?  Syschk thinks it is 185MHz.
The crash occurs just before I would expect 'calibrating delay loop XXXX 
Bogomips'.  It may have been set to 2x83 instead of 2z75 MHz.  In fact we 
may have set it this way ourselves a few years ago.

We have Cyrix PR200's in other computers running at 150MHz and syschk 
thinks they are about as fast as an Intel 133MHz.  Cyrix claims they are 
as faster as Intel 200MHz.  They must be measuring different things.  I 
have found them slower at manipulating large images than a PI 133.

I have the PDF manual for this DFI board.  Why would DOS and ramdisk linux 
not have the problem but loop or ext2 linux do have it?


On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> We have a computer that works fine in DOS.  I put BL3 on hda2 and BL2 on hdb1 
> and ramdisk BL2 on hda1 with DOS.  The last of these boots fine.
> DOS works.  The hard drive linuxes and even loop linux get to the line just 
> before Dentry hash tables. .... and get a GPF with a list of numbers and 
> eventually a kernel panic or something.  Memtest passed the computer, which 
> was given to us to recycle along with many others some of which were okay. 
> How would we determine where the problem is in the hardware?
>
> What is a hash table and is that what is causing the problem?
>
> We were going to clone the computer we made for a young friend, for his 
> brother, but can put the drives elsewhere.  Just curious what might be the 
> problem here.
>
> The young friend would like to know if he can download entire threads from 
> this mail list because he is trying to read it all in reasonable order, 
> offline.  I think he may already know more than I do about linux.
>
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