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- From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
- Subject: Rebooting and bad cache
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.031659.2484@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:16:59 GMT
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- Has anyone else received a bad cache memory error after rebooting Linux?
- Every time I reboot, my BIOS tells me that my cache memory is bad, and that
- I should disable it. This message comes up just before the Shoelace menu
- appears and only after I have rebotted from Linux. Rebooting from DOS does
- not seem to produce this error. Also, if I shutdown and then C-A-D instead of
- typing reboot, the error does not appear. Disabling the external cache seems
- to fix the problem.
-
- My system configuration is as follows:
-
- 486-33
- AMI BIOS/OPTi chipset
- 256K external cache
- 16MB memory
- 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy drive on /dev/fd0
- 1.2MB 5 inch floppy drive on /dev/fd1
- Quantum 244MB hard drive partitioned as follows:
- ~100MB DOS partition on /dev/hda1
- ~64MB Linux root partition on /dev/hda2
- ~50MB Linux partition on /dev/hda3, mounted as /home
- ~20MB Linux swap partition on /dev/hda4
- Colorado Memory Systems 250MB tape drive
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-
- Monty
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- Internet : mhbrekke@iastate.edu
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