linux crashing on amd athlons?

linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Ameer Armaly]

Hi all.
While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and shuting
down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is a custom
built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for athlon then
i386 afterwards, but with no luck.
Thanks,



Ameer

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:

> While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and
> shuting down the computer at random places within the install.

the oops says?

> This is a custom built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I
> optimized for athlon then i386 afterwards, but with no luck.

it works for a great very many people, more details are required


  --cw

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Ameer Armaly]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Wedgwood" <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Ameer Armaly" <ameer@charter.net>
Cc: "linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?


> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:
>
> > While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and
> > shuting down the computer at random places within the install.
>
> the oops says?
I've counted approximately 10 different oopses, occuring at random
intervals; I can't duplicate them with any chance of success.
>
> > This is a custom built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I
> > optimized for athlon then i386 afterwards, but with no luck.
>
> it works for a great very many people, more details are required
>
>
>   --cw

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 05:11:34PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:

> I've counted approximately 10 different oopses, occuring at random
> intervals; I can't duplicate them with any chance of success.

smells like bad hardware

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Måns Rullgård]

"Ameer Armaly" <ameer@charter.net> writes:

> Hi all.
> While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and shuting
> down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is a custom
> built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for athlon then
> i386 afterwards, but with no luck.

Bad memory maybe.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Magnus Naeslund(t)]

Måns Rullgård wrote:

> "Ameer Armaly" <ameer@charter.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi all.
>>While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and shuting
>>down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is a custom
>>built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for athlon then
>>i386 afterwards, but with no luck.
> 
> 
> Bad memory maybe.
> 

Another tip with Athlons is to make sure that you have a good 
powersupply. We have had some random crashes with a fileserver using 
dual Athlons, and it turned out to be underpowered due to the disks 
taking too much juice...

Regards
Magnus

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004, Ameer Armaly wrote:

> While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and shuting
> down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is a custom
> built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for athlon then
> i386 afterwards, but with no luck.

I have several Athlons (from the venerable 500 to the new XP 2600+) in
use at various sites, no problems. Among them an XP 1700+ in server use
with vanilla 2.4.26, rock solid.

Check you've used a supported compiler and binutils, then check the
hardware. Cooling (heat sink), RAM (try memtest86), power supply, proper
clock speed and core voltage, proper RAM timing -- these are all
contributing factors to instability if not carefully chosen and
installed.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95

Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Kenneth Aafløy]

On Monday 07 June 2004 01:57, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004, Ameer Armaly wrote:
> > While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and
> > shuting down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is
> > a custom built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for
> > athlon then i386 afterwards, but with no luck.
>
> I have several Athlons (from the venerable 500 to the new XP 2600+) in
> use at various sites, no problems. Among them an XP 1700+ in server use
> with vanilla 2.4.26, rock solid.
>
> Check you've used a supported compiler and binutils, then check the
> hardware. Cooling (heat sink), RAM (try memtest86), power supply, proper
> clock speed and core voltage, proper RAM timing -- these are all
> contributing factors to instability if not carefully chosen and
> installed.

I have a dual Athlon MP2400+ running very stable on Linux Kernel (.org) 
2.6.7-rc1, only the last week I have had random segfaults while compiling 
kernels and the like. So I popped open the case and vacuumed it, every thing, 
with special care on fans and ribbons. After this it's been running 
flawlessly again :)

My point beeing, better know your hardware before checking for flaws in Linux!

Kenneth