In a case that I was personally involved with, the system had a 6x86 and
had odd errors while compiling a new kernel for IP-Masq after about a 1hr
installation phase. It was a rather warm area (summer day about 85F and no
air conditioning in the house). Installation of the 6x86 package and
setting of the halt-on-idle cleared the problem. I suppose if one ran
two or three kernel compiles back-to-back, it might still have faulted but
allowing the CPU to cool down when inactive was enough to produce
trouble-free performance. THe CPU would not get hot enough during a
single compile to fault with the bit set. Otherwise, I agree. The only
reason that Linux was put on that system anyway was because of unstable
performance under windows probably also due to CPU overheating. WIth the
bit set, the system has proved stable for its required use, an X desktop
that displays applications running on a remote machine.
The problem was not in faulting before the rc scripts could be reached but
in faulting before Linux could be installed, drives initialized,
filesystems made, 6x86 downloaded, installed, configured and run.
George Bonser
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