[Nottingham] Still no luck with 2.6-test5

Robert Davies nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Sep 24 08:02:00 2003


On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 23:37, Philip Scott wrote:
> ng to it, is
> a bug in bzip) And compiling stuff seems a little tempremental. I've had
> these problems before, though, I think I have a few bytes ever so slightly
> forgetfull RAM somewhere in my dear machine, and the new kernel is bringing
> the rubbish to light ;)

emerge memtest86

And make sure it's in the Grub or lilo boot menu.  If you can't trust your 
machine to compile correctly, you ought to use a binary modular kernel, 
provided by a distro.

Rob