Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????

[Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>]

Well, the computer doesn't even come up any more, just halts on the POST
with
CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded

look below, something wierd here?
I CAN make it come up with F1, the results of Free show

Mem:	64108	62824	1284	18924	45460	6136
-/+ buffers/cache:11228	52880
Swap:	130748	0	130748

I have 1 128meg sdram in this computer (but don't have the
append="mem=128M" in lilo.conf, am adding that now...)

fstab has...
/dev/sda1	/	ext2	defaults	1 1
/dev/sda2	/var	ext2	defaults	1 2
/dev/sda3	/web	ext2	defaults	1 2
/dev/sda4	swap	swap	defaults	0 0
/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	ext2	noauto	0 0
/dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660	noauto,ro	0 0
none		/proc	proc	defaults	0 0


and fdisk shows...

/dev/sda1	*	1	1	64	514048+	83	Linux native
/dev/sda2		65	65	128	514080	83	Linux native
/dev/sda3		129	129	500	2988090	83	Linux native
/dev/sda4		501	501	554	433755	82	Linux swap

It doesn't look to me that swap is on?  What did I miss?  Shouldn't I
have 433755 megs of swap space, not 130?

Thanks again!!!

--Alexander Woodby


Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> The diagnostic seems to indicate a paging failure.
> 
> You might not have marked the swap file properly, initilized it properly,
> made it too small, or allowed Linux to set it up as a swap file at boot.
> 
> The next time you bring it up, make sure that the swap file is working...
> even with 128megs of RAM you DO need a swap file active.
> 
> Run "free" or "top" and see what the available swap file size and free space
> is.
> 
> -JMS