Re: No kernel oops?

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Fri, 9 May 1997 09:34:31 +0100 (GMT/BST)

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > what was the value of 'reg' ? I guess if the memory location is bigger
> > than 4096 then the bug wont get noticed by zero page.
>
> Boot the kernel with mem=nopentium when doing random memory accident tests

And make sure you built the kernel without Cyrix 6x86 VSPM enabled
if you have a 6x86. (Maybe this should be a boot line option too...)

Mike

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