Re: Linux-2.1.127

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 17:26:56 +0000

David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com said:
> It manages this much before it reboots:
>
> Linux version 2.1.127 (dwmw2@devel2.axiom.internal) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #42 Sat Nov 7 20:32:05 GMT 1998
> Detected 348211915 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 347.34 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127904k/131072k available (916k kernel code, 404k reserved, 1796k data, 52k init)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 01
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

Sorry to follow up my own post, but this problem appears to have gone away
after a 'make clean'.

Whether a problem like that can be considered a kernel bug is up to the
individual - it probably depends on how long it takes you to recompile from
scratch, and how much you enjoy doing so just because you can't trust the
automatic dependencies.

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