Re: problems with old 386 and linux 2.x

Lauri Tischler (lauri.tischler@efore.fi)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:59:01 +0300

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David Burrows wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I've recently installed RedHat 5 and its various updates, on an old AMD
> 386dx40 with 8mb RAM. First of all I'm concerned about this message
> which shows up in both pre-2.0.34-4 and pre-2.1.92-1. (Surrounding lines
> included)
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips or a
> power saving mode enabled.

Check your bios setup, you might have parity check enabled as old
boxes check parity of memory and report this via nmi.

disable any references to nmi in the bios setup.

Cheers..

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