[plug] RH6 shutdown problem

[Jon L. Miller]

I'm having the same problems with a AMD K6-2 400 and 450 Chip with an
EPoX MBoard and PC100 SDRAM (128MB).  I've inquired at both AMD and EPoX
regarding the error... no response yet.  Keep me posted if you can find a
way to capture the information.

Jon

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On 8/31/99, at 11:53 PM, Bret Busby  wrote: 

>We have RH6 installed on two boxes.
>
>One is a Cyrix 6x86 based system with 32MB RAM. It boots and shuts down
okay.
>
>The other is an AMD K6-2 300 based system, with 64MB RAM, and it crashes
after
>shutting down. It gets to "System  halted", then produces a screen of
error
>text, with, a few lines from the top, an error indicating a kernel
paging fault.
>The text includes the contents of the registers, further down the
screen.
>Apparently this happens every time the system is shutdown from the RH6
operating
>system.
>
>Firstly, is it possible to somehow extract the text that is displayed,
as the
>text being displayed, is displayed after the "System halted" message? We
figure
>that, if the text can somehow be saved to a file, then it can be
transmitted for
>diagnosis. The logical problem is, apart from how the error appears to
be
>generated, and displayed, after the system has shutdown, how can we save
the
>output to a file after the system has shutdown?
>
>Secondly, does anyone have any idea what is happening?
>
>And, despite the differences in politics between Christian and me, and,
despite
>the allegations by someone else on this list, of Christian basing some
of his
>advice on heresy (?), I respect his technical advice.
>
>
>Bret Busby
>.............................

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