[ale] Weird install errors

[Stuffed Crust]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:38:49PM -0400, Vernard Martin wrote:
> A colleague of mine is trying to install RedHat 7.1 on a K6-2 200Mhz
> with 32MB of ram and a 10GB hard drive. When doing the installation, he
> consistently gets either a hard lockup or the installation crashes on a
> signal 7. Has anyone else run into this problem and if so, how do we get
> around it?.

A SIGBUS is usually caused by a misaligned memory read, but this isn't a
problem on ia32 architechures.

Instead, I'd point a finger towards defective RAM.  Try scaling back the
memory timings, or replacing the sticks and see what happens.

(I once had a machine that would give me SIGBUS errors if there were >24
 megs installed..)

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