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canadian_coder
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I've recently got my Gentoo up and running but now it's down and frozen. I'm not sure what has changed but when I edit my lilo.conf my system freezes. Being as new to this as I am I have no idea what is going on. Could someone help?
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject: Re: My Gentoo freezes! |
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| canadian_coder wrote: | | I've recently got my Gentoo up and running but now it's down and frozen. I'm not sure what has changed but when I edit my lilo.conf my system freezes. Being as new to this as I am I have no idea what is going on. Could someone help? |
Please be a little clearer. Does your system freeze after you edit lilo.conf, run lilo, and reboot? Or is it freezing after editing lilo.conf and running lilo? Or, does it actually freeze when you edit lilo.conf?
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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It freezes as soon as I make the first change. I tried a couple other files and the same thing happens.
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| canadian_coder wrote: | | It freezes as soon as I make the first change. I tried a couple other files and the same thing happens. |
What editor are you using? Have you tried a different one?
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I originally used nano and now I've tried emacs, neither seem to work.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are editing in a terminal, perhaps try it without framebuffer or with a different driver? Just a guess. |
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I tried without the frame buffer and still no good.
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| canadian_coder wrote: | | I tried without the frame buffer and still no good. |
Well, I have to say...I've never had an editor freeze a computer. You are compiling with the correct -march setting?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| it might be a hardware problem.. check your memory with memtest86+ or try with an another distro.. |
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In case anyone is interested I had LILO on a 64-bit AMD and I didn't realize just how unstable it really was, so I switched back to GRUB (now that I have it working  )
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