On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:49 -0400, Bruce Feist wrote: > Edward Dekkers wrote: > > > Bruce Feist wrote: > > > >> I've installed the AMD 64-bit version of Fedora, 2.6.13, on a new > >> computer with 1 gig of RAM, one PCI-connected IDE drive, and three > >> SATA disks. My most recent experience with Linux was RH 8.1 or so. > >> Bad things are happening... > > > > > > Highly likely hardware problems. A complete hardware lock (requiring a > > reset) is very unlikely software related. > > > > Do a full (14+ hours-all tests selected) memtest on the thing. > > My apologies for a newbieish question, but what's memtest? (Obviously > some kind of memory test, but I don't see a package for it, and man -k > doesn't turn anything up on it). Google turned up memtest86 -- is that > what you refer to? (I'm assuming so, and am about to create a boot disk > of it.) > Two packages are available. Memtest86 was the original package. Memtest86+ is an improved version and IIRC is included in the FC4 distro. If you do a yum install memtest86 it should also put it into grub.conf so you can select it from the menu when booting. Downloading it and creating a boot disk (CD or floppy) is certainly an option. > Bruce >
