On 17 Sep 2002, MLH wrote:

> Yes. I reported this in
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/09/12/0007.html
> last week.
>
> The current status of this is that we removed every i/o card from
> the box except video, and even swapped that with another type of
> video card. We swapped the 4 sticks of EDO ram around and removed
> the different pairs of them one at a time. We swapped cpus (MP
> pentiumpro) and even voltage regulators. Still segfaults.
>
> When sysinst segfaults, it does so when installing misc.tgz - every
> time.
>
> The interesting thing is that memtest86 was run for two days
> (reported no errors), then immediately after shutting it down and
> rebooting, NetBSD1.6 and RH7.3 both installed fine. The box ran
> with either one for about two hours, then shut down.  Can't even
> get the bootloader to run properly now.  Sysinst does leave a
> corefile on /dev/wd0a, but we don't have a good way at the moment
> to move it to something we can look at it with. We also ran one of
> the cdrom-only linuxes (doesn't use hard drive) and it ran fine,
> in addition to RH7.1 and NetBSD1.5.3.

	As a final hardware test you could try cpuburn (sysutils/cpuburn).
	I've found burnMMX very helpful in showing up cpu/memory issues.

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