Not reproducable crc error at boot :-(

Not reproducable crc error at boot :-(

[Remi Turk]

Hi folks,
when booting pre5 I got a crc-error while uncompressing
the kernel this morning. (/usr/src/linux/lib/inflate.c:1166 AFAICS)
Rebooting didn't trigger it again and it's the first time I ever saw it.

I've never had any SIG11 problems while compiling kernels so I wouldn't
expect bad RAM. (Normal people probably run Seti@home,
I run "while make bzImage; do date >> /tmp/kcompile; make clean; done"
;-)

OTOH, it's not reproducable which seems an indicator for hardware
trouble :-(

Does anybody have any ideas?

Linux version 2.4.0-test10-pre5 (src@localhost.localdomain)
(gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release))
#1 Tue Oct 24 17:14:24 CEST 2000

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 5
model		: 8
model name	: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping	: 0
cpu MHz		: 350.000809
cache size	: 64 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
sep_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mmx 3dnow
bogomips	: 699.60

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Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre5 #1 Tue Oct 24 17:14:24 CEST 2000
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Re: Not reproducable crc error at boot :-(

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Hi,

I would suggest to increase the 8bit waitstates in the BIOS by +1 (or
more). - you might have to increase the 16bit waitstates as well (or
instead of the 8bit ones).

It cured such a problem for me: - A Intel Pentium PC that had run Netware
3.12 perfectly happily for years didn't boot up with a CRC error after
installing RedHat 7.0 on it. - Increasing the 8bit waitstates from 1 to 2
cured the problem completely and the PC is rocksolid now. - The PC also
ran Windows quite happily (I installed it after the trouble with Linux
just to see if it would work - I was worried about the hardware having
gone dodgy.)

Hope this helps.

Regards,

	Anton

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Remi Turk wrote:

> Hi folks,
> when booting pre5 I got a crc-error while uncompressing
> the kernel this morning. (/usr/src/linux/lib/inflate.c:1166 AFAICS)
> Rebooting didn't trigger it again and it's the first time I ever saw it.
> 
> I've never had any SIG11 problems while compiling kernels so I wouldn't
> expect bad RAM. (Normal people probably run Seti@home,
> I run "while make bzImage; do date >> /tmp/kcompile; make clean; done"
> ;-)
> 
> OTOH, it's not reproducable which seems an indicator for hardware
> trouble :-(
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Linux version 2.4.0-test10-pre5 (src@localhost.localdomain)
> (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release))
> #1 Tue Oct 24 17:14:24 CEST 2000
> 
> processor	: 0
> vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
> cpu family	: 5
> model		: 8
> model name	: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> stepping	: 0
> cpu MHz		: 350.000809
> cache size	: 64 KB
> fdiv_bug	: no
> hlt_bug		: no
> sep_bug		: no
> f00f_bug	: no
> coma_bug	: no
> fpu		: yes
> fpu_exception	: yes
> cpuid level	: 1
> wp		: yes
> flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mmx 3dnow
> bogomips	: 699.60
> 
> -- 
> Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre5 #1 Tue Oct 24 17:14:24 CEST 2000
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