Mike Ciul on 23 Feb 2006 22:33:45 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] BIOS EDD -- new install hangs 

I discovered something interesting.

If I do something like this:

perl -e '@f = <>; while (1) { sort @f; }' < /var/log/syslog

...the system does not freeze. As long as I can keep the processor tied up,
it keeps going. What could it be doing during idle time that causes it
to freeze?

- Mike

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:15:09PM -0500, Mike Ciul wrote:
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> I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu. Even during the initial install,
> the system freezes after about 5 minutes of uptime. By repeated
> attempts, I got the thing to  install all the way, but it still freezes
> after about  5 minutes. I can't find any log messages close to the time
> of the freeze. I've tried a few kernel options (acpi=off, nolapic,
> noapic), I've stabbed randomly at BIOS options, but nothing seems to
> make any difference. Can anyone think of a reason why a system would
> freeze after 5 minutes of doing nothing in particular? It even does it
> in single-user  mode, so I don't think it's X-related.

Is it stable if you run memtest86?  That's about the simplest "OS" you
could try running.

Was the material you quoted (BIOS EDD problemy by C. Jones) or your
subject relevant to your question?  I had trouble seeing the link
based on what you wrote.

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 Jeff

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