Re: Strange system behavior

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 1) Did you ever run memtest86? I see no mention of that having been
> run.

Yes - way back at the beginning - almost two weeks ago.  Ran for more 
than 10 complete passes, with zero errors.


> 2) I have a machine that consistently fails while building NetBSD
> under NetBSD. It does fine at building NetBSD when running Linux. I
> tried reporting the apparent concurrency bugs a long time ago, but
> was largely ignored. If (and only if) you run memtest86 for a day and
> it passes, try cross-building NetBSD on the box under Linux and see
> if it works.

Yuck.  You mean I gotta figure out how to install, set-up, and boot 
Linux?  Ouch!

:)




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