Segfaults on kickstart

Fri Oct 22 11:00:27 UTC 2004

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Kai Blin wrote:

>recently I'm getting only segfaults when kickstarting one of our dual
>athlon servers via pxe and nfs. The last thing it does is getting the
>kickstart file from the nfs server, and after that it dies.

Segfaults on a single machine smells strongly of bad hardware. I'd
consider running Hitachi's DFT [1], cpuburn [2] and memtest86+ [3].

>I'm currently checking the hardware on this box, but is there any way
>to get some more debugging information from kickstart?

How does it die? Can you use the bash session on VT2?

Cheers,
Phil

[1] http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
[2] http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpuburn/
[3] http://www.memtest.org/