[Nelug] fc4 on via c3 processor

[Daniel Tweedy]

I sort of understand what your saying i'm still pretty much learning and 
breaking things regarding linux :-)

I have had this machine running unbuntu and fc2 fine before no random 
rebooting, although fc2 did need a modified i586 kernel as suggested by 
the fedorafaq people, this fixed the random reboots on that, but seems 
no such fix for fc4 as of yet.

I haven't tried memtest no, or looked in the syslog, but I will give 
those things a go and see how I get on.

Oliver Burnett-Hall wrote:
> Daniel Tweedy wrote:
> 
>> I have a mini-itx box running fedora since fc2, however I have always 
>> had a problem of it randomly rebooting I did fix the problem on fc2 by 
>> means of getting the i586 kernel as suggested by the fedorafaq guide, 
>> this did fix the problem hoever I have the problem again on fc4 tried 
>> the same guide but getting the fc4 i586 kernal but this doesn't seem 
>> to of fixed the problem I was doing yum update when it rebooted the 
>> last time.
>>
>> specs are
>>
>> EPIA M10000
>> VIA C3 Processor
>> 1GB RAM
>> Everything else on board.
> 
> 
> I think your problem is nothing to do with i586/i686 compatibility; IIRC 
> Epia M10000's have Nehemiah cores, and so support the CMOV instruction 
> and should be able to run i686 code.
> 
> [Technically all C3 processors are i686, but there's a bug in gcc which 
> means that it takes i686 to mean CMOV is supported, when it's actually 
> optional for i686 processors]
> 
> Random reboots often indicate failing hardware (and can be a right pain 
> to diagnose).  Have you tried running memtest on your system for a few 
> hours to see if it's the memory that's flaky?  And does anything show up 
> in syslog that could give a clue as to what's causing the reboots.
> 
> - olly
> 
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